Populist discontent with international engagement, institutions, and experts has a kernel of truth because institutions and experts have genuinely failed and refused to acknowledge those failures, but the solution of pure isolationism is false because the US has legitimate national interests in maintaining a rules-based international order.
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Bret StephensEvidence Quote
“we have to be able to do many things at once and so what we're devoting to Ukraine is important because we want to maintain a world in which dictators aren't rampaging everywhere [27:43]”
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What Happened to the Republican Party?: A Conversation with Bret Stephens (Episode #329)— Sam HarrisCreated: 8/12/2026, 9:43:35 PM
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