Summary at The Federalist:
Walter Russell Mead, editor of The American Interest and fellow at the Hudson Institute, joins Ben Domenech in studio to discuss foreign policy schools of thought, Jacksonianism, and the future of education and religion in America.
Mead
labels the type of people who voted for Donald Trump in key Democratic states
as Jacksonians, Mead said. “Jacksonians are often, in foreign policy and
domestic policy, they are often more motivated by threat than by opportunity,”
he said. “They’re often surprisingly unmotivated by stories of political
corruption, but perversion of government is a different thing and that reaches
them on a different level.”
Mead
discusses how Trump’s cabinet and national security advisors view America’s
role in the world, and how their views will overlap or collide. “Tillerson and
Trump will both face the problem that government isn’t the same as corporate
governance,” he said. “When you bring Jacksonians into government, they
generally have less experience with government, less understanding of the
people around them.”
