Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts What do Americans (Republican Voters) Actually Think?

What do Americans (Republican Voters) Actually Think?

Ethics & International Affairs

We hear all sorts of assumptions as to what American voters–and now specifically Republican voters who may or may not serve as the basis for President Trump’s support–think and believe about U.S. foreign policy. The prevailing wisdom is that the Republican base is isolationist, supporting a recession of U.S. global influence, and less willing to articulate a defense of U.S. values overseas. Colin Dueck crunches the numbers and puts them in context, and comes to the following set of conclusions:

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