Democrats have become the party of war. Americans are tired of it

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Once in office, though, progressives learned a hard lesson: we had developed the ability to secure foreign policy commitments, but still lacked the power to enforce them.
45% : The political scientist Daniel Drezner recently wrote that with the re-election of Trump, the era of American exceptionalism has ended: "Under Trump, US foreign policy will cease promoting long-standing American ideals.
38% : One upside of Trump, and I use that term advisedly, is that he's made it impossible not to look.
27% : Trump made a play for these voters, promising to seek peace and attacking Democrats for campaigning with the "radical war hawk" Liz Cheney.
21% : Because Trump is a foreign policy heretic, he could be dismissed as an outlier.
20% : Trump is just here to bury the corpse.
18% : As Trump takes office and Democrats prepare to enter the political wilderness, we need to reckon with how they got this so wrong.
18% : His efforts to change the foreign policy mindset were hampered not only by a recalcitrant security bureaucracy (a problem Trump also faced) and his own cautious instincts, but also by the fact that he brought into his administration two people who very much embodied that old way of thinking about foreign policy: Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
18% : In 2016, as Trump began his takeover of the Republican party, Bernie Sanders also offered Democrats an alternative.
17% : Among undecided voters in the weeks leading up to the election, Harris scored higher than Trump on only one of those issues (the climate crisis).
13% : When Joe Biden took office in 2021, I never imagined I would write this, but by the end of his presidency he will have done more damage to the so-called "rules-based order" than Trump did.
10% : Ultimately, despite his hyper-cautiousness and his own party leadership's obstinacy, Obama made a few significant foreign policy moves that challenged elite consensus - among the most important being the Iran nuclear deal and ending the Cuba embargo, both later reversed by Trump and then abandoned by Biden.

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