>>69488859
Do you live in Bizarro World?

>>69488859
>isolationism in war and politics. That's what made America great
Our status as a world power is based on our military's power projection capabilities and our system of alliances and friends around the world. Being a world power is about having influence over other nations, and if you do not interact with other nations, you will not have influence over them.

>>69488859
True enough OP, but Trump doesn't have to be perfect, he just has to bbe honest, and work for us, unlike the commies and traitors like Bush and Clinton who are trying to fuck us over.

>>69489258
america was great _before_ that happened, retard. america was great _before_ world war 1. war has turned it to shit.

>>69489258
And America was great before we started doing that. It's been a downward slide, despite our superpower status, ever since.

Protectionism made America great and free trade has ruined us.

>>69489515
>>69489580
You people are fucking idiots.

>>69489694
Not true. The american rev war was fought for the right to have free trade, and the south fought again for the right to trade free with the world. Protectionism has impoverished us, and will continue to do so, while it enriches the oligarchs and the government elite.

Washington and Jefferson were free traders, 100% of modern traitors are protectionists (which means, they are government insiders who love to increase taxes on us, and stuff the tax money in their pocket, while pretending to "protecct" us, from low prices I guess)

>>69491781
>"Any nation which by means of protective duties and restrictions on navigation has raised her manufacturing power and her navigation to such a degree of development that no other nation can sustain free competition with her, can do nothing wiser than to throw away these ladders of her greatness, to preach to other nations the benefits of free trade, and to declare in penitent tones that she has hitherto wandered in the paths of error, and has now for the first time succeeded in discovering the truth"

>According to Michael Lind, protectionism was the policy of the United States from the passage of the Tariff of 1816 to WWII, "switching to free trade only in 1945, when most of its industrial competitors had been wiped out" by the war.

If isolationism made us great explainn the Spanish-American war, the intervention in Libya (the one 250 years ago), and the Mexo-American war. America will become great again when it acts like an empire and exerts power over foreign entities.

>>69492337
We were founded on an anti-empire strategy, but that was mostly just being butt-mad at the British "Empire" as soon as we got strong we started expanding west, then internationally.

We should have stayed out of WW1 completely, because WW1 was just a Euro-shitstorm over nothing, and we should have avoided WW2 as well, with some fair negotiating with the Japanese we could have stayed out easily.

But no, we had to be cucks, and kill the flower of our youth, for no gain (died for the jew, again)