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The exact terms of what makes up Trumpism are contentious and are sufficiently complex to overwhelm any single framework of analysis; [1] it has been called an American political variant of the far-right, [2] [3] and the national-populist and neo-nationalist sentiment seen in multiple nations worldwide from the late 2010s [4] to the early 2020s.
The principal pressure group opposing America First was the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, which argued that a German defeat of Britain would in fact endanger American security, and which argued that aiding the British would reduce, not increase, the likelihood of the United States being pulled into the war. [34]
Pages in category "America First Committee members" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Robert Douglas Stuart Jr. (April 26, 1916 – May 8, 2014) was the son of Quaker Oats Company co-founder R. Douglas Stuart, the founder of the America First Committee in 1940, the CEO of Quaker Oats from 1966 to 1981, and United States Ambassador to Norway from 1984 to 1989.
An early opponent of American involvement in World War II, Shriver was a founding member of the America First Committee, an organization started in 1940 by a group of Yale Law School students, also including future President Gerald Ford and future Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, which tried to keep the US out of the European war. [10]
In 1941, Fish was implicated in an America First Committee franking controversy leading to William Power Maloney's grand jury investigating Nazi penetration in the United States. [1] After the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and German declaration of war, Fish called for unified support for Roosevelt as a wartime president.
He first became known for live streaming the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He joined Vice Media and Fusion TV in 2014, later working on YouTube and other platforms. Early life
at an America First rally held in the Des Moines Coliseum in Des Moines, Iowa, [26] on September 11, 1941. [27] Eight thousand people attended in person, [26] and it was broadcast by radio to a national audience. [28] When Lindbergh got on stage with others from the America First Committee, members of the crowd variously applauded and booed. [29]