I have come to believe that unlike those who followed, George Washington who was at the root a Virginia farmer, was an isolationist.
Today’s neo isolationists love to quote him
You have to judge his isolationist ideas in the age in which he lived. There was no Internet, high-speed travel, nuclear weapons, etc... things that affect many nations if not the entire world. I think he had the wisdom to judge what would make sense just with regards to policy in the modern world from his common sense and just judgements he made in his lifetime.