America's allies are terrified of a Trump 2.0

By Robert Hamilton and Dan Perry

One of the peculiarities of U.S. history is that the major political parties have not significantly differed on foreign policy since the onset of the post-World War II order. In that time the West has been led by the United States from a posture that is fundamentally liberal—in the classic, not American, sense—and also moderate. As far as left-right divides go, the Democrats have not been inherently pacifist, nor have the Republicans been more aggressive abroad.