Miles Parks

Now, it's not that neocons disappeared over the coming years, but they just got a little less loud.

And isolationists like former Texas Representative Ron Paul got a bit louder of a voice.

So fast forward to Trump.

Trump was considered a real rejection of neoconservatism because, as you heard him in that debate clip we heard at the top, he talked a lot about racism.

We don't want the U.S.

to be spending its treasure and sending its people overseas.

We want to keep that here.

That is what America first is.

Now, there is quite a bit of debate about how isolationist Trump ever was, but he certainly did push the idea that the U.S.

needs to be less involved overseas.

So when we're talking about Donald Trump's foreign policy ideology, it is easy to think that, huh, his view of the world and his role in it must have changed from term one to term two.

Term one, when he really ran in 2015 and 16 on saying we need to stop getting involved in all of these foreign places, foreign issues.

But.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

People like Rex Tillerson, who was secretary of state, Jim Mattis, who was secretary of defense, people who curbed Donald Trump's instincts.

And now he has people who are willing to enable him.

And so Trump has really just gotten better at using the levers of power, and he's just doing a lot more.

Well, in large part, it's been pretty quiet.