I was concerned about Americans being isolationists," he said years later.
"They are isolationist, parochial," said Mr. Said.
The Administration is isolationist — its slogan is "America First".
In the long view, though, American exceptionalism can be isolationist as well as internationalist.
Men are also significantly more likely to be isolationist (58% are) than collaborative (42%) while women are evenly split.
Its followers believed in laissez-faire economic policies, including free trade, free competition, and freedom of contract, and were isolationist in foreign affairs.
George C. Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff, was assembling a vast fighting force, and many of the young draftees and volunteers were isolationist, ignorant, or indifferent.
Critics of Tablighi, which include those within the wider Muslim community, said the group was isolationist, socially conservative and a gateway to radicalism.
America's behaviour abroad is variously said by critics to be innocent, inconstant or unwise; its policymakers are isolationist, unilateralist or interventionist; its voters are ignorant, detached or short-sighted.
Public opinion was isolationist; the country would scarcely open its doors to German-Jewish refugees; the State Department was filled with anti-Semites, inclined to let Hitler have his way.
