Source: Foreign Policy
by Stephen M Walt
“You might think a realist/restrainer like me would be leaning toward Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, especially given my dismay at how Biden and his colleagues have handled Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and some other foreign policy issues. Harris wasn’t responsible for those policies, but she has declined to say they were wrong when given the opportunity. … there’s no sign that Harris’s own views on foreign policy lie outside the Beltway consensus or reflect a realist view of international affairs. … So why am I not ignoring Trump and Vance’s troubling deficiencies of character — which is putting it mildly — and planting a Trump-Vance sign in my yard? Let me count the ways.” (10/16/24)