The U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, spoke at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night.

The way each of us can best ensure our freedoms is by electing leaders who don't just talk, but who deliver.

The fact that Pompeo was part of the RNC at all

was a break with precedent.

Past secretaries of state have steered clear of the nominating conventions.

There's an old tradition in U.S. diplomacy

that partisanship stops at the water's edge.

But there was Pompeo at the RNC

in a personal capacity, he says, not a secretary, appearing in a video taped from the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

And their freedoms more secure, because President Trump has put his America First Vision into action.

It may not have made him popular in every foreign capital, but it's worked.

Pompeo was there to boost Trump's America-first foreign policy, and that is the brand,

but it falls short of describing how the U.S. moves through the world.

What is Trump foreign policy in 2020? Well, you know, it's a good question. I mean, I've been

studying foreign policy for a long time, and I've said this before. If you were to ask me

today, what is U.S. foreign policy? I would be hard-pressed to answer that. This is Slate's Fred Kaplan.

He writes about war and U.S. foreign policy.

There isn't any consistency to it, except that it's something that supports Trump in the world of domestic politics.

Something that supports the president in the world of domestic politics. Something that supports the president in the world of domestic politics

is not supposed to be on the State Department business cards or mission statement.

And Fred says after nearly four years,

America First has destabilized international relations

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