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The Illusion of Isolationism | Foreign Affairs

Citing his contempt for allies and his hostile attitude toward immigration, analysts and commentators often paint U.S. President Donald Trump’s leadership style as a throwback to the isolationist ways of the nineteenth-century United States. This argument is half right. The essence and emphasis of Trump’s national security policy does hark back to a number of early U.S. presidents, including James…