Do voters care about a ‘president of peace’?
DO VOTERS CARE ABOUT A ‘PRESIDENT OF PEACE’? President Donald Trump sometimes calls himself the “president of peace” and says he has “ended eight wars” in less than a year in office. His critics quibble with this or that claim, but politically, there is a bigger problem with the “ended eight wars” assertion: Hardly anyone cares.
Unless there is a shooting war involving the United States going on, Americans have historically cared little about foreign policy. Ask them to name the most important issues facing the country today, and they will invariably put foreign policy at the bottom of the list.
The Gallup polling organization has been asking the question for decades. It’s an open-ended........





















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