Bob Kagan

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1,471 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 29 Jul

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The Bulwark Daily · Robert Kagan and Marianne Williamson: Slipping Into Dictatorship · 4 Feb 2026 podcast

Let's not forget.

I mean, this wasn't exactly a Democratic Party that was sort of, you know, really showing American global leadership.

I mean, that when when Ukraine was.

invaded.

Biden did the right thing, but he didn't do it very forcefully or aggressively.

So the notion that you're going to come back to post-World War II America is not true.

Look, let's face it, the national consensus on foreign policy in both parties had gotten to the point where everybody thought, we're doing too much out there.

Why are we engaged?

The Soviet Union is gone, et cetera.

That's been happening since the end of the Cold War.

So that is a reality.

And let's not forget also, when it comes to trade,

It was the Democrats who began the major hostility to foreign trade.

They were the ones who wouldn't pass a trade bill.

They were the ones who had to abandon Hillary Clinton's own negotiated partnership with Asia, etc.

And so...

You know, Trump, in a way, is late to the party on protectionism.

So I don't know that if the Democrats come back in 2028 that they're going to get rid of all these tariffs.

Didn't Gretchen Whitmer say she kind of likes tariffs a little bit?

Well, and Biden kept some of the Trump tariffs.

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