The Republican Party and American Foreign Policy: A Broken Tent Pole

By Justin Stakes

by Dr. Robert H. Clemm

Grove City, PA -(Ammoland.com)- A long tradition in American politics has been the metaphor of political parties serving as a “big tent.”

In the case of the 2016 Republican nomination process, however, the tent seems to be collapsing if not set aflame by its own members. The contentious and riotous affair that has been the primary season, a far different one than most pundits and party insiders had expected, could simply be laid at the feet of Donald Trump; a fitting carnival-barker candidate if there ever was one. To blame one man, however, for the fractured nature of the primary belies that the “big tent” metaphor not only fits, but also explains why the Republican primary has become the chaotic affair that it is.

Parties are always an amalgam of people with varied, and often contradictory, views and backgrounds. It is precisely this variance of individual interests that makes the “big tent” metaphor stick. The goal of any party is not to meet every individual need, but to unify …Read the Rest

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