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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 380: Is isolationism a bad thing?
Description: P&C drink and review "Oaked Vanilla Porter" by Sam Adams, then discuss isolationism (starting at 3:57).
They start off with a general definition, then talk about the history of isolationism in American politics -- from the earliest days.
Americans don't like "entangling alliances." Or at least they say they don't.
There's been a strong current of isolationism in American politics since the beginning. Washington, Jefferson, and Monroe created the three pillars of American policy: neutrality, unilateralism, and non-intervention.
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