Indeed, if one measures by the polls taken through early January, the two leading Republican presidential candidates—Donald Trump and Ted Cruz—have been carving out for themselves a radically different foreign-policy niche. Now, Trump and Cruz do not agree on everything. But for the most part they have been in sync, if for no other reason than Cruz’s determination to woo Trump’s voters if and when Trump himself fades from the scene. It is therefore possible to detect the outlines of what might be called a Trump-Cruz foreign policy. Cruz has outlined the more intellectual and nuanced version of this approach, while Trump has been more emotive and extreme.
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