HOORAY Trump
An individual American not afraid to take a stand for the republic and its citizens in contrast to uniparty criminals and kabuki theater extras.
For those who are serious about understanding history, the “America First” movement was a lot more complex than the simpletons who pass for an educated elite these days will ever understand, let alone admit.
The context needs to be understood less as being pro-Nazi, which 99% of “America First” was not, than about not wanting to repeat the way we ended up involved in World War I.
The origins of WWI are murky and every one of the major powers has been blamed, but I think many recent scholars would agree that almost no one wanted a general European war in 1914 over Serbia, but no one was willing to back down. Austria certainly had a right to redress from Serbia over the assassinations. Remember: based on French egging on, the Russians mobilized (against Germany) first. Once the Russian mobilized, the Germans had to, which triggered the waterfall. Britain would never have gotten involved if it weren’t for the Foreign Secretary, without the approval and the real understanding of the cabinet, making the relationship with the French closer and closer, including military conversations integrating plans with the French even when there was no actual alliance. The relatively recent [i]The Sleepwalkers[/i] is pretty good.
At any rate, even though the US had no reason to be involved, Wilson was rabidly pro-British and connived with the British to minimize British violations of American neutrality and maximize German violations (which were much less early on). William Jennings Bryan, Wilson’s first Secretary of State, actually resigned as a matter of principle because Wilson wasn’t really neutral. Completely contrary to American historical neutrality in Europe and contrary to what he claimed when running for reelection in 1916. And then there was the utter disaster of Versailles.
By the 1930s, a lot of people knew this, and did not want to get involved in a repeat; they distrusted, rightly enough, French and British motives and did not want to be part of wars against Germany or Russia for that matter. In 1940, the draft was passed by a single vote.
What made sense at first, of course, did not make sense by late 1941, and after the US was attacked, the movement faded away.
In that context
So why is Rush making the comparison when no one else is? His concern for Trump is revealing imho.