Quit calling Donald Trump an Isolationist. He's a militarist.

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  1. Order2Chaos

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  2. Nova

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    who calls him an isolationist? He's supposedly obsessed with ISIS, he openly speaks of taking the oil from Iraq and others, he enriched himself by meddling with China basically as his opening move.

    He's a nationalist, but no isolationist.
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    Just about everyone after his "America First" bit.
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    I haven't heard anyone call him an isolationist either.:shrug:
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    When will people realize he doesnt stand for anything and just says what he thinks people want to hear. You know, a politician.
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    True.

    I'd go with "demagogue."
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    Well, his rhetoric on the campaign trail about abandoning NATO and our security commitments in East Asia, among other things, were what earned him the "isolationist" label. But he's since backtracked on things of that sort.
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    There is one thing keeping him from being a pure politician. He is never t a lawyer. It is his only redeeming value, and that is not much at all.
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    Exactly. Somehow the label has stuck though.