Mark Levin Exposes His Deep Historical Ignorance With ‘Isolationist! Isolationist! Isolationist!’ Whining

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Fox News host Mark Levin keeps smearing those who disagree with his foreign policy views as “isolationists,” yet he appears woefully ignorant of the term’s origins, as well as America’s rich history of anti-imperialism and anti-interventionism.

Levin lamented Republicans and conservatives skeptical of President Donald Trump’s war against Iran on Sunday night.

“We have this strong strain of isolationism, as we had in the 1930s. It has enveloped and devoured the Democrat Party. It has caused some Republicans to have caution to the point of fear, and it concerns me a lot,” Levin said. “This is my concern: you have the Democrat Party that is an isolationist party. Period. Very hostile to our own interests. Very hostile to Israel’s interests. And quite frankly, hostile to the Gulf Arab interests, as well. You don’t have Republicans, certainly not in the recent past, willing to step into the void and do anything about it.”

Levin then appeared to suggest that when Trump is no longer president the Republican Party might risk turning more “isolationist,” and any supposed gains made in this current war might soon evaporate. 

Commuters make their way past a giant billboard of slain Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Valiasr Square in Tehran on April 19, 2026. The strategic Strait of Hormuz was again closed on April 19 in the stand-off between Iran and the United States, with Iran’s powerful parliament speaker signalling a final peace deal remained “far” off despite some movement in negotiations. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)

Levin’s guest, Trump’s former U.S special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, agreed. Ironically, Kellogg lamented that Americans so often forget history and its lessons, before making yet another trite analogy to the 1930s and the way in which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain dealt with Adolf Hitler — as if American or world history began in the 1930s. (RELATED: No, Mark. Not Everyone Who Disagrees With You Is A ‘Traitor’)

Both Levin and Kellogg are either completely ignorant of America’s history before this period, or they simply don’t want to discuss it, because it might expose their “isolationist” smears as intellectually bankrupt.

The common belief is that “isolationism” only entered the American lexicon during the 1930s, in the lead-up to World War II, to describe the likes of Charles Lindbergh and the original America First movement. Although the slur did become far more popular at this time, its origins actually lie in the late 19th century.

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