The headline of the day on Donald Trump’s foreign policy address yesterday comes from Politico, the arbiter of Beltway conventional wisdom: Trump fails to impress foreign-policy experts Few disciplines of public policy turf are more fiercely defended than foreign policy.  After all, there are endless facts and personalities and histories to be mastered.  Henry Kissinger is perhaps the outstanding example of a figure that dazzled with his knowledge of the intricacies and thereby earned credibility.  Ronald Reagan, in contrast, was mocked as an ignoramus.  When in a presidential debate he was asked about his strategy versus the USSR, he said, “We win; they lose” and was denounced as a simpleton. So if you are a member in good standing of the foreign policy establishment, there was no way you were going to be impressed by what Trump had to say (transcript, video).  A good example would be CNN foroiegn policy “expert”...(Read Full Post)