A lot of ink has been spilled in the past week about changes in the party platform related to social issues, along with discussions about how the GOP under Donald Trump has modified positions like trade and entitlements. But too little has been said about the policy program the president has the most control over—functionally more than the Constitution permits—and the decisions that’ll be life or death for Americans in uniform.
This year, in a reversal of standard practice, the Republican National Committee presented delegates with a finished product. The platform committee approved the document in less than an hour with no amendments and only a few minutes of debate.
Written in Donald Trump’s familiar style, the entire platform cover to cover is a mere sixteen pages, fifty shorter than the most recent 2016 platform. But its brevity matches its clarity.
