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From JD Vance. This is a very bad take from a normally thoughtful person. Bridge has consistently been correct about the big foreign policy debates of the last 20 years. He was critical of the Iraq War, which made him unemployable in the 2000s era conservative movement. He built a relationship with CNAS when it was one of the few institutions that would even hire a foreign policy realist. A perceptive writer would ask why a serious realist was shut out of the dominant institutions of the American Right in the late 2000s. Instead this guy says “he’s a democrat.” Sloppy BS.