Their most visible public figure is TV pundit Tucker Carlson. involvement, however, have actually defended Putin's aggression. I don't agree, but it is a reasoned stance. should not be directly involved by arming Ukraine. She condemns Putin's aggression, but maintains that the U.S. should have commercial relations with all nations and alliances with none. Some of its adherents, like Mollie Hemingway, make a defense of American noninvolvement in foreign wars whose pedigree extends all the way back to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who said that the U.S. How did this happen? Over the course of the last decade, the base of the Republican Party, and especially the younger generation, has returned to a wave of isolationism not seen since Herbert Hoover, and in its more extreme reaches redolent of Colonel Lindbergh and Father Coughlin. By contrast, Republican opposition to funding Ukraine’s war effort grew from three to forty-seven no votes, and likely incoming Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said there will be no “blank check” for more assistance. Apparently the Democrats are now the party of neoconservatism. The Biden administration, along with NATO, pledged military assistance to Ukraine, which after a slow start, has been robust. That was followed by Reagan’s military suppression of a Soviet-inspired coup in Grenada and full-scale land wars under the Bush administrations, culminating in the toppling of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban in Afghanistan.īut during Ukraine's recent war to repel Russia's invasion, those roles have been begun to be reversed. Bush and George Bush would immediately answer "the Republicans.” They would remember that the Democrats, shattered by the Vietnam War, had renounced what President Carter termed "the inordinate fear of Communism,” while the hawkish foreign policy stance of FDR, Truman, Acheson and JFK migrated to the Republicans. Charles Lindbergh addresses an America First Committee rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana (1941)Īsked "which is the more hawkish party,” anyone remembering the presidencies of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W.
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