Dangerous divisions are opening up in both political parties over foreign policy. Israel’s war in Gaza is throwing the traditional Democratic Party establishment — of which President Biden is very much a member — on the defensive. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is opening up a similar fault line in the Republican Party — between the old internationalist Republican establishment (Ronald Reagan, the Bushes) and the new Donald Trump isolationists (“America First”). In both cases, populists are challenging longstanding establishment convictions.
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