Will the Real Amer­i­ca Firsters Please Stand Up?

The Richard Nixon Foun­da­tion last Tues­day con­vened its (nom­i­nal­ly bipar­ti­san) Grand Strat­e­gy Sum­mit, where Pres­i­dent Trump’s for­mer Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Advis­er Robert O’Brien gave a lit­tle inter­view at the start. He tried to bal­ance his own real­ist instinct to align with the crowd, which were more tra­di­tion­al insti­tu­tion­al repub­li­can. The result was a slight­ly jar­ring mis­match in tone, espe­cial­ly for those who have seen the oth­er speak­ers and pan­elists, which includ­ed Matthew Con­tinet­ti, Car­rie Fil­ipet­ti, and Eli Lake, ta …