McConnell Warns Trump against Adopting a Democratic Foreign Policy

Axios reporter Hans Nichols seems to have applied a little critical deconstructivism to Mitch McConnell’s outstanding essay in Foreign Affairs. Even if it sounds like McConnell is being critical of Democrats and their conventional outlook toward foreign affairs, the reporter submits that he is, in fact, cleverly admonishing Republicans.

Nichols notes that the piece is “full of appeals to Trump, who he once called ‘stupid’ and ‘despicable.’” McConnell “reserves some of his harshest criticism for Democrats in an attempt to convince Trump that isolationism can have consequences,” Nichols adds. Indeed, even if the senator is “clearly concerned about the number of threats America faces,” “McConnell appears to be writing with an eye on future fights in addition to his own legacy.”