A nation must think before it acts.
On October 19, 2016, FPRI Senior Fellow Colin Dueck was cited in the New York Times article, “How Donald Trump Hacked the Politics of Foreign Policy.”
As policy, that is dubious. But it is a powerful way for Mr. Trump to present himself as someone who will treat outsiders with suspicion and ruthlessly pursue economic gains. It is a message wrapped in foreign policy but meant to tap into more domestic concerns.
Colin Dueck, a George Mason University professor, wrote in a recent paperthat Mr. Trump’s worldview demands and offers “a sort of Fortress America, or perhaps a gigantic gated community, separated from transnational dangers of all kinds by a series of walls.”
To voters “feeling displaced by long-term trends toward cultural and economic globalization,” Professor Dueck wrote, Mr. Trump’s policies promise “security, separation, and reassertion of control.”