from sending aid to the victims of Nazi aggression. They fought tooth and nail to keep the US out of World War II. And so Trump harkening back to the America First days was to me a strong sign that the isolationism, the turn inward that I saw in the 1990s was really gaining steam and in fact taking root in the White House. And in my mind, Trump is not the cause of it. He is more the symptom, the visible manifestations of a country that at least from his mind wants to step away from having bitten off more than it can chew. So isolationism has tended to have a bad name, certainly during this period of liberal internationalism. And I wonder, I guess one of my questions is, is that merited? One, two, where does that narrative come from? And that maybe three could open the door to really explore the history before the 1940s, which you document so well in all of these different stories, whether it's the Spanish-American war or the Monroe Doctrine, and maybe explore how isolationism actually (7/33)
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