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E.J. Fagan, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois who writes on think tanks, observed that before Trump was elected, the Heritage Foundation had in the past espoused “what you might call a Reagan-esque foreign policy,” but “if you read it now, it’s very much about pulling back from the world.”
When it comes to the U.K., Project 2025 takes at least some of its cues from Nile Gardiner, a foreign policy analyst and director of the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.
Speaking to POLITICO, Gardiner acknowledged “our thinking, our ideas for shaping the future of U.S. policy toward Europe, are playing an important role” in Trump’s regime, which he said was embarking on “a rejection of the globalist mindset that you typically see in a Democrat administration and [that] you’ve even seen in some Republican administrations.”
However, he denied any tension between this movement and the new secretary of state, describing the leadership as “very unified” behind a “clear willingness to wholeheartedly defend the American national interest.”
Rubio has come a long way since the Republican presidential primary rivalry of 2016, when he was happy to attack Trump for his insular viewpoint, insisting that “a world without our engagement is not a world we want to live in.”
At his confirmation hearing for secretary of state, he signaled his willingness to align with Trump to a large degree, specifying that America can only engage in the world while “putting our core national interests above all else.”
