What the Hell Is Going On: #WTH: MAGA Voters Reject Isolationism. Roger Zakheim Explains.

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Notwithstanding regular headlines and firm conventional wisdom, the MAGA Movement is not and never has been an isolationist faction of the Republican Party. Neither the American people nor self-identified MAGA Republicans are fundamentally isolationist, and in fact score higher than non-MAGA Republicans on support for U.S. intervention abroad. The numbers don’t lie: this year’s Reagan […]

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
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0:07.1	Thanks for listening. Here's our show.
0:08.7	What the hell is going on?
0:10.4	What's really going on?
0:12.0	We said, what the hell happened?
0:13.5	You don't have to know what the hell is on it.
0:15.6	They see what's going on.
0:16.7	I don't know what's going on.
0:18.0	What is going on?
0:20.0	We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on.
0:29.6	Hi, I'm Daniel Pletka.
0:31.3	And I'm Mark Dyson.
0:32.3	Welcome to our podcast.
0:33.7	What the hell is going on?
0:35.5	Mark, what the hell is going on?
0:37.1	What the hell is going on is we have discovered a little known fact, which is that the Republican isolationists are a tiny, tiny faction of the MAGA coalition.
0:48.0	They are completely out of touch with Donald Trump, and they are completely out of touch with MAGA voters.
0:53.3	And we've got the numbers to
0:54.8	prove it because the Ronald Reagan Institute has come out with its annual poll of foreign policy
0:59.5	attitudes and they describe very broadly the foreign policy views of the American people,
1:04.7	Republicans, Democrats, etc. But I dug into the numbers on MAGA and MAGA voters are not isolationists, and neither is Donald
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