All by Himself? Trump, Isolationism, and the American Electorate

@article{Dodson2021AllBH,  title={All by Himself? Trump, Isolationism, and the American Electorate},  author={Kyle Dodson and Clem Brooks},  journal={The Sociological Quarterly},  year={2021},  volume={63},  pages={780 - 803},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:240577549}}
ABSTRACT During his campaign and subsequent presidency, Donald Trump staked out and implemented an isolationist foreign policy agenda that sought to put “America First” and curtail U.S. participation in international treaties and trade agreements. Isolationism represented a dramatic turn away from the internationalism of all postwar presidencies, and Trump’s radical foreign policy changes raise two novel questions: Did isolationism resonate with American voters, and if so, how did this shape… 

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