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The typical FOREIGN AFFAIRS issue since 2016 election has been downright hostile to President Trump. I surely might have missed some exceptions to that, but this is the first article I recall in this magazine that has had anything favorable to say about President Trump. Prof. Schweller also notes some foreign and domestic policy successes of the Trump administration: "... A year into Trump’s first term, the Islamic State, or ISIS—a fascist organization, by the way—had been virtually defeated in Syria and eliminated from all its havens in Iraq, thanks to the Trump administration’s decision to equip the largely Kurdish militia fighting ISIS in Syria and give U.S. ground commanders greater latitude to direct operations. All the while, Trump has continued the Obama doctrine of avoiding large-scale conventional wars in the Middle East and has succeeded where his predecessor failed in enforcing a real red line against Bashar al-Assad’s use of nerve gas in Syria by launching targeted air strikes in response. In North Korea, Trump’s strategy of 'maximum pressure' has cut the country’s international payments by half, forcing Kim Jong Un to realize that his only choice is to negotiate."

"On the domestic front, the unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent in May, a level not seen since the heady days of the dot-com boom—with unemployment at an all-time low among African Americans; at or near multidecade lows among Hispanics, teenagers, and those with less than a high school education; and at a 65-year low among women in the labor force. Meanwhile, on Trump’s watch, the stock market and consumer confidence have hit all-time highs, the number of mortgage applications for new homes has reached a seven-year high, and gas prices have fallen to a 12-year low. Finally, with Trump pledging to bring to an end the era in which 'our politicians seem more interested in defending the borders of foreign countries than their own,' illegal immigration was reduced by 38 percent from November 2016 to November 2017, and in April 2017, the U.S. Border Patrol recorded 15,766 apprehensions at the southwestern border—the lowest in at least 17 years. ..."

“Trump’s transactional approach to foreign relations marks a United States less interested in managing its long-term relationships than in making gains on short-term deals.“

He doesn’t get it at all.

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The typical FOREIGN AFFAIRS issue since 2016 election has been downright hostile to President Trump.

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My guess is they are a bunch of academics whose wealth depends on keeping crooked politicians happy.

Foreign Affairs is still fairer to the President then Foreign Policy. FP jumped the shark during the 2016 elution.