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Bolton TV hits today underscore a reality for POTUS since Day 1. His worldview and foreign-policy style (stewing together militaristic rhetoric, noninterventionist "American first" instincts, personality-driven diplomacy, and a lack of focus on human rights) is so unorthodox...
that even the people he has hired to be his spokespeople on these issues (Bolton, Pompeo, Haley, Tillerson, etc.) frequently struggle to defend his nationalist & spontaneous approach or illuminate it for the public or the global community. Or, they even distance themselves...
At the highest level of the party, the presidency, the GOP is led by a personality-driven, self-described nationalist who has engaged with autocrats and lashed out at global institutions. Yet at all other levels, the party is mostly a cast of bewildered and often quiet hawks...
This Bolton clip is revealing:
