Republicans nominated an internationalist in 1940. But amid multiple global conflicts, they are backing proud isolationist Donald Trump.
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He became the best-known advocate for a popular, progressive vision that would enlist the American people in a campaign for a new world...
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In February 1941, Willkie went before Congress to champion Roosevelt's proposed Lend-Lease program, which would provide military aid to Britain...
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A thoughtful student of history and economics, he powerfully articulated classically liberal ideals of political and economic freedom. For all...
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New Jersey loved Warren Harding. In the 1920 presidential election, Harding won 68% of the vote in New Jersey. He won all 21 counties,...
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In 1943, failed presidential candidate Wendell Willkie advanced “One World,” a strikingly anti-racist, anti-colonial plan to bring the...
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With war brewing in Europe, these internationalists hoped that he could drive the insular nationalism that everyone called “isolationism” from...
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Its thesis was plain: The world had “become small and completely interdependent,” he wrote. “There are no distant points in the world any longer...
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The way to bring the people of Africa and Asia aboard the international war effort, he believed, was to promise a postwar world worth fighting...
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Willkie stayed on his dark horse after losing to Franklin Roosevelt, discovering that defeat, however painful, became him. Willing to engage in...
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