Donald Trump’s challengers are unanimous that the president gets it wrong; but express real differences with each other
BEFORE LAUNCHING into a speech for the 30 or so Joe Biden-curious Iowans who had gathered in Ames on a frigid Wednesday evening in early January, John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004 and a secretary of state for Barack Obama, made sure to hug an old friend in the crowd: the gunner from his swift boat in Vietnam many decades ago. Soon after returning from that war as a wounded and decorated veteran, Mr Kerry had concluded that it was a pointless misadventure.
All this, Mr Kerry argues, is reason to trust in Mr Biden, who, between his time as a senator and vice-president, has nearly a half-century of experience in matters of foreign policy. More years, in other words, than Pete Buttigieg—the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana who is vying with him to represent the moderate faction of the Democratic party—has had on Earth. His long experience is the reason Mr Biden thinks that foreign-policy debates are to his advantage.
Of the major candidates, Mr Biden is most guided by the impulse to restore the pre-Trump status quo. Reassurance of NATO allies whom Mr Trump has alienated; rejoining both the Paris accord and the Iran nuclear deal; and pursuing arms control treaties with Russia all rank high among his priorities. He is the candidate most in line with the Washington foreign-policy establishment, often lamented as the “the blob”. Critics to his left have suggested that this is hardly a mark of good judgment.
Both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the leading left-wing candidates for the nomination, differ from the blob in that they frame foreign policy in terms of domestic projects. Mr Sanders sees international affairs in terms of a binary contest, between “a growing worldwide movement towards authoritarianism, oligarchy and kleptocracy” and his own egalitarian vision. He has been a sharp critic of American interventions, particularly in Latin America, over his many decades in Washington.
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