Last November, restrainers Dan Caldwell and Reid Smith wrote a piece in Foreign Affairs titled, “Trump Must Not Betray ‘America First,'” in which they argued that former Vice President Kamala Harris’ embrace of a more muscular and militaristic foreign policy than Trump may have hurt her in swing states, which tended to have higher rates of recent battlefield casualties and were wary of military entanglements.
“Instead of doubling down on American primacy,” Trump and the Republican Party, which had just won the election, should adopt “a foreign policy of realism and restraint that prioritizes American interests over maintaining the hegemony of liberal values worldwide,” they wrote.
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