Donald Trump’s neocolonialist, funhouse realpolitik foreign policy is an outlier even in his own party, let alone in the country as a whole. So what would a consensus foreign policy look like? I would say it would closely resemble Obama’s, except that it would be more overtly hostile to the Chinese, and it would involve even less foreign military intervention. In particular, we would stop sucking up to dictators, peacefully promote liberal democracy and human rights, reduce the absurd concern about trade deficits, embrace our allies instead of repelling them, support useful international institutions, and comply with agreements instead of tearing them up.
Wouldn’t that be a welcome change? Even Lindsey Graham should prefer it to what we have now, although he would never admit it.