John Bolton’s Biggest Fears About Trump 2.0
The Republican gadfly—and former U.S. ambassador and national security advisor—warns that Trump 2.0 will be even worse and more chaotic than the original.
For five decades, John Bolton has been a fixture in the foreign-policy firmament of Republican administrations—an uber-hawk, a “bull in a china shop” of global diplomacy, and a consistently thoughtful and forthright proponent of a certain vision of U.S. power. He was a senior official at the State Department and the National Security Council in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush.
Keith Johnson is a reporter at Foreign Policy covering geoeconomics and energy. Twitter: @KFJ_FP
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