Embracing questionable political figures as a way of advancing legitimate foreign-policy critiques is a trade-off right-wing non-interventionists have made again and again. They did so with Lindbergh, with Buchanan, with Trump. And now that Trump has shown how little his non-interventionist rhetoric meant, they are back in the wilderness, writes research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer for Vox.
Election Watch 202415 April 2017
After the Syria strikes, right-wing non-interventionists are back in the wilderness
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Dr Nicole Hemmer
Honorary AssociateUnited States Studies Centre