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David Brooks: belief

6 Jun 2018 Conversations with Tyler David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason)

“I think a Reaganite foreign policy is still possible, which urges democracy promotion, human rights abroad, but is not quite thinking that we’re going to solve human evil within three years.”

— David Brooks

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David Brooks
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
6 Jun 2018
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Is the Wilsonian foreign policy still feasible, given that our GDP relative to global GDP will just keep on falling? I’m an idealist in foreign policy, but Wilson is too idealistic for me. I’m more realistic. I think a Reaganite foreign policy is still possible, which urges democracy promotion, human rights abroad, but is not quite thinking that we’re going to solve human evil within three years. You argued in a recent column that the anti-Trump movement basically has failed. What could it or should it have done better or different?…

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