Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy: McCarthyism as a Cautionary Tale

If you want to understand where President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy might be heading, Jack Thompson thinks you should to study the infamous career of Senator Joe McCarthy, who represented the State of Wisconsin from 1947-1957. Like McCarthy, Trump has built a base of working-class white support with a message that combines populist hostility towards elites with exaggerated depictions of foreign threats. Oh, and that’s not all.

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