Trump's Team of Realists

President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy is taking shape. Its essence is geographical, and the tools to facilitate it are economic, diplomatic, and military power. It eschews abstractions and sentiment in favor of Bismarckian realism. If Abraham Lincoln led a “team of rivals,” Trump leads a team of realists whose members understand that global stability and peace don’t emerge magically from idealism and crusades, but instead result from spheres of influence and the balance of power.