Paleocons we have with us always? America First isolationism from right to "left"
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Every time a war becomes big news and looks to go on for a while, which the Russia-Ukraine was does, I find myself rehashing some recurring phenomena in American public discourse about war. There's a trend of political thought that runs from the pre-World War II rightwing isolationists who morphed into the original American Firsters. It's postwar incarnations later came to be known as the Old Right, who continued their American First kind of criticism as postwar rightwing revisionism on the war. Harry Elmer Barnes were Percy Greaves, Jr. were notable figures in the Pearl-Harbor-was-a-Roosevelt-conspiracy school of thought. Progressive historian Charles Beard climbed on this kind of rightwing isolationist bandwagon and continued it after the war with his book
Paleocons we have with us always? America First isolationism from right to "left"
Paleocons we have with us always? America…
Paleocons we have with us always? America First isolationism from right to "left"
Every time a war becomes big news and looks to go on for a while, which the Russia-Ukraine was does, I find myself rehashing some recurring phenomena in American public discourse about war. There's a trend of political thought that runs from the pre-World War II rightwing isolationists who morphed into the original American Firsters. It's postwar incarnations later came to be known as the Old Right, who continued their American First kind of criticism as postwar rightwing revisionism on the war. Harry Elmer Barnes were Percy Greaves, Jr. were notable figures in the Pearl-Harbor-was-a-Roosevelt-conspiracy school of thought. Progressive historian Charles Beard climbed on this kind of rightwing isolationist bandwagon and continued it after the war with his book