Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ. The Bull Works Weekly Roundtable

discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist, and policy editor of the Bullwork, and I'm joined

by our regulars.

Bill Galston of the Wall Street Journal and the Brookings Institution,

Damon Linker, who writes the sub-stack newsletter

notes from the middle ground, and Linda Chavez of the Niskannan Center.

Our special guest this week is Kori Shockey, Director of Defense and Foreign Policy

Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

Welcome, one and all.

Cori, I have been looking forward to talking with you

because there are so many foreign policy issues that are highly, highly relevant to some

voters.

And so in light of the debate between Trump and Harris and in light of everything really,

I'd like you to first just begin to discuss this question of, well, yeah, Trump may be a little crazy,

but that's good.

It's good that he comes across as crazy because it keeps our adversaries unsure, on the back foot,

and therefore it plays to his advantage.

Can you address that? Because you hear it a lot. Yeah, I think it's one of those

theories, right? Like the crazy decision-maker that works in theory but is a terrible policy

in practice and because your allies can't figure out how to roll in in support of

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