Eli Lake heralds a new era of Republican discourse:
New insurgents began to emerge within the party, and new ideas moved to the center of the debate. The result is not simply that Republican candidates are, on the whole, less inclined to support democratization and nation-building this time around. It’s that the very terms of the GOP foreign policy discussion have changed—or rather imploded entirely, leaving in their wake a difficult-to-parse ideological brew of policy disagreements and competing instincts.
Ackerman seconds Eli's analysis but cautions against drawing too many conclusions about staff choices now. To my mind, the real evidence lies in the budget deal. For the first time since Reagan, the Pentagon is being treated by the GOP as a huge government program to be cut along with everything else. That won't be the headline today; but in retrospect, it might be the most significant shift of the moment.
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