President Donald Trump stands behind the presidential seal in the Oval Office at the White House
President Donald Trump takes questions from the press at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 28, 2025.(Leah Millis/Reuters)

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 ...

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