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MAGA isolationism born from war disillusionment
MAGA's rage against the international system comes from a generation of patriotic new-right politicians who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, concluded the liberal-democracy rationale was 'bs', and combined neoconservative belief in unconstrained American might (stripped of the democracy element) with a nativist impulse to produce neo-isolationism.
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Speaker
Max BergmannEvidence Quote
“if you take elements of neoconservatism about you know un unconstrained american might and you drop the liberal democracy stuff and you combine it with kind of a nativist impulse that's kind of where they are”
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