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In reply to the discussion: What is the "hard left"? [View all]Expecting Rain
(811 posts)Are you suggesting FDR was wrong to fight fascism in Europe and Asia?
You agree with the isolationists of FDR's day that we should have stayed out of WWII?
War is a terrible thing. Neo-isolationism makes war more likely. FDR knew that. Had Hitler been challenged when he marched troops into the de-militarized-by-treaty Saar Valley, he'd have been overthrown by his own generals and a catastrophe would have been avoided.
Neo-isolationism is a pro-war ideology. To avoid wars the US must be positively engaged with allies on the world stage.
To retreat into fortress America is to give a big nativist FU to the rest of the world who we leave to mercy of those bad-actors who will happily fill the power vacuum.
FDR understood this. The isolationists of his day did not.
Today we have neo-isolationists attempting to claim FDR's mantle, when their program is diametrically opposed to his. It's pretty bizarre.