WTH: MAGA Voters Reject Isolationism. Roger Zakheim Explains.

Notwithstanding regular headlines and firm conventional wisdom,
the MAGA Movement is not and never has been an isolationist
faction of the Republican Party. Neither the American people nor
self-identified MAGA Republicans are fundamentally isolationist,
and in fact score higher than non-MAGA Republicans on support for
U.S. intervention abroad. The numbers don’t lie: this year’s
Reagan Foundation Summer Poll found the MAGA coalition strongly
support Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. Why
are these results counterintuitive? And how has a tiny
isolationist faction of self-appointed MAGA spokespeople drummed
up so much noise?


Roger Zakheim serves as the Washington Director of the Ronald
Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. Before joining, he
was General Counsel and Deputy Staff Director of the U.S. House
Armed Services Committee. In this role, Mr. Zakheim managed the
passage of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, the
defense policy bill which authorizes the Defense Department’s
budget. Mr. Zakheim’s government experience also includes serving
as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense where he supported the
department’s policies and programs related to Iraq and
Afghanistan coalition affairs.


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