Heard this mimic’d on radio yesterday- some lib trying to tie the use of “America First” to the pre-WWII Lindbergh led American Bund (which was pro-Nazi).... so “of course” Trump means this in the same way. How very manipulative and clever of the facile bill kristol’s of the false conservatives who are in no way conservative— and who would have long ago been outed by Joe McCarthy. Kristol is an utter fraud.
We must be vigilant to every uni-party meme-— like this one. That somehow, looking out for American sovereign interests (as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson insisted was a priority), and looking out for American companies and American private sector jobs and productivity that fueled the US as the Beacon of Freedom for the rest of the scruffling world)... can be equated with the Holocaust. Oh, and don’t forget the current melding of Fascism with Naziism— a technique of.... Communists, well covered by Hedrick Smith and Victor Davis Hanson.
I think Mr K is shedding the label of False Conservative. There is not much pretense left.
Woah...there is a lot of misinformation about this out there. The Bund was not the America First Committee and they had nothing to do with each other. The Bund was a group of German immigrants. The AFC was supported by most of the establishment and most of the political right and GOP at the time. Charles Lindberg was no more “pro-Nazi” than FDR was.
The mainstream narrative about this time in US history is a product of cultural marxist revisionism, coming from the same communist milieu that Bill Kristol was spawned in.
Here are some facts about the America First Committee:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee
“The AFC was established on September 4, 1940, by Yale Law School student R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. (son of R. Douglas Stuart, co-founder of Quaker Oats), along with other students, including future President Gerald Ford, future Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver, and future U.S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart.[3] Future President John F. Kennedy contributed $100, along with a note saying “What you all are doing is vital.”
“Other celebrities supporting America First were novelist Sinclair Lewis, poet E. E. Cummings, Washington socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth, film producer Walt Disney, actress Lillian Gish and architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The many student chapters included future celebrities, such as author Gore Vidal (as a student at Phillips Exeter Academy), and the future President Gerald Ford, at Yale Law School.[8]”