This summer, President Donald Trump told my colleague Michael Scherer that 'America First' means whatever he decides it means. Now'as he blows up boats near Venezuela, amasses military assets near its coast, calls for the closure of its airspace, and tries to oust its leader'he is testing the limits of the term. Trump took over the GOP promising an 'America First' foreign policy to a war-weary nation that had soured on attempts to police and reshape the world. Doing so distinguished him from rivals aligned with George W. Bush and the Iraq War. But Trump was never ideologically committed to restraint. The most outspoken critic of the president's latest hawkish turn is Senator Rand Paul, who has blamed the influence of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senator Lindsey Graham. If Trump invades Venezuela, the Republican from Kentucky told Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine, 'his movement will dissolve.' Trump says land strikes inside Venezuela are coming soon and dismisses Paul as 'a...
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