The Dark Origins of America First

JustaGator · Dec 28, 2024

Those who don't learn their history are doomed to repeat it apparently...

https://fpif.org/the-ugly-origins-of-trumps-america-first-policy/

Although the seemingly innocent slogan goes back deep in American history, it began to develop a racist, anti-Semitic, and xenophobic tone after World War I. The Ku Klux Klan, which surged to some five million members at that time, employed it frequently for its terrorist mobilizations. Like the Klan, nativist groups took up “America First” as they used racist, eugenicist claims to press, successfully, for U.S. government restrictions on immigration. Appealing to an overheated nationalism, William Randolph Hearst used his newspaper empire to campaign, successfully, against U.S. participation in the League of Nations. Soon thereafter, he became a booster of other nationalist fanatics, the rising fascist powers.
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92gator · Dec 28, 2024

JustaGator said: ↑

Those who don't learn their history are doomed to repeat it apparently...

https://fpif.org/the-ugly-origins-of-trumps-america-first-policy/
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Rough case of message board flatulence tonight, huh? LOL?

btw, your link:

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