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Foreign policy trivia is not foreign policy knowledge

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Carl Beijer
Feb 12, 2016
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Media and policy elites appear to have arrived at a remarkable consensus over Hillary Clinton’s supposed foreign policy advantage against Bernie Sanders. CNN reports that “Clinton’s fluency on foreign policy has long been a strength Sanders can’t possibly match”; the New York Times refers uncritically to Sanders’ “minimal expertise in foreign policy”; a…

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