{"id":172416,"date":"2023-03-14T20:54:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T20:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=172416"},"modified":"2023-03-14T20:54:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T20:54:58","slug":"the-gops-stunning-realignment-on-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/the-gops-stunning-realignment-on-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP's stunning realignment on foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illustration: Brendan Lynch\/Axios<\/p>\n
Ron DeSantis' claim that protecting Ukraine isn't in the "vital" interest of the U.S. highlights a remarkable divide in the GOP over foreign policy \u2014 pitting its top two presidential candidates against the party's more hawkish establishment.<\/p>\n
Why it matters: <\/strong>The move by DeSantis \u2014 echoing the isolationist views of his likely rival, former President Trump \u2014 represents a sharp contrast from most of the past four decades, when Republicans typically have subscribed to the Reagan era's "peace through strength" internationalism.<\/p>\n Driving the news: <\/strong>DeSantis said Monday in a statement to Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News that the U.S. involvement in Ukraine should be limited. Carlson, who solicited comments from announced and presumed GOP presidential candidates, opposes U.S. military aid there.<\/p>\n Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie told Axios: "[DeSantis] sounds like Neville Chamberlain talking about when Germany had designs on Czechoslovakia."<\/p>\n Pence, meanwhile, gave a full-throated defense of the American-led alliance with Ukraine: "There is no room for Putin apologists in the Republican Party," Pence wrote in his statement to Carlson. <\/p>\n Between the lines: <\/strong>Pence, in particular, is emerging as a potential GOP counterweight to the growing voices of isolationism within the party.<\/p>\n By the numbers: <\/strong>Recent polling shows the Republican Party is divided on support for Ukraine \u2014 even as a sizable majority of the overall public supports helping Ukraine defend itself from the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n Zoom in: <\/strong>DeSantis \u2014 who has not officially announced a run for president \u2014 had not been particularly specific on his foreign policy positions before his statement to Carlson.<\/p>\n The bottom line: <\/strong>DeSantis' declaration raises the possibility we're seeing a realignment over foreign policy in both parties \u2014 a jarring shift to anyone following politics after 9\/11.<\/p>\n\n
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