
Not yet. One of the things that attracted certain voters to Trump was his willingness to condemn the Iraq War as a mistake, and to implicitly promise not to get involved in more regime-change wars. This was a necessary and hygienic acknowledgment. A significant portion of the right has returned to its native skepticism of government ambitions, even when they come from the Department of Defense. This was the natural position of most of the right after the Spanish-American War and World War I. It was, as Sam Tanenhaus reminded us in his biography, the position of William F. Buckley ...