{"id":133967,"date":"2020-08-24T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=133967"},"modified":"2020-08-24T12:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T20:33:05","slug":"wsj-elites-yearn-for-a-restoration-abroad-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=133967","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Elites Yearn for a Restoration Abroad Under Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/elites-yearn-for-a-restoration-abroad-under-biden-11598289200?mod=hp_opin_pos_1\">Gerard Baker writes<\/a>: &#8220;Part of the problem the foreign policy establishment has with Mr. Trump is that it\u2019s hard to stomach that a dilettante has been so effective. Whatever you think of the president, his inconsistencies, his curious taste for the world\u2019s autocrats and his bombast, his efforts have proved more consequential than those of the bipartisan foreign policy establishment that came before him. On the three biggest strategic challenges the U.S. confronts\u2014the Middle East, China and the Western alliance\u2014the president has radically reoriented U.S. policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bob Gates, another former Republican foreign policy official who actually served in government with Mr. Biden, once said that the Democratic nominee had been \u201cwrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.\u201d A Glorious Restoration indeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Baker writes: &#8220;Part of the problem the foreign policy establishment has with Mr. Trump is that it\u2019s hard to stomach that a dilettante has been so effective. 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