What does future hold for Pompeo, Trump's stalwart ally?
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo is arguably the most Trumpy of President Donald Trump's Cabinet secretaries. He has aggressively pursued the president's "America First" agenda, mimicked the commander in chief's bombast and routinely flouted norms observed by his predecessors.
In a sharp turn from previous Republicans and Democrats who held his post, Pompeo has echoed Trump's praise of dictators and suspicion of traditional democratic allies. The result has been a mixed record that foreign policy experts say will take years to assess, but did little to build ties with foreign leaders put off by Trump's contempt for alliances.
Pompeo "seemed more of a democracy denier than a democracy promoter, more rooted in domestic politics than foreign policy," said Douglas Alexander of Harvard Kennedy School's Future of Democracy Project. His tenure "not only
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