isolationist
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"The isolationists and the Reaganites don't agree on much, but one area where they do is the Western Hemisphere," a former Trump administration official told Politico.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026
It wasn’t surprising to see complaints about the agreement from labor groups and other economic isolationists.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025
Critics and isolationists like aviator Charles Lindbergh, a leader of the America First Committee, took Roosevelt to task.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
He shows how Americans with an antipathy for war now found themselves castigated as "isolationists," a derogatory term created to suggest provincialism or selfishness.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2020
But many senators were opposed to the treaty as written, and American isolationists wanted to keep the United States out of world affairs.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
