Reply #48: "America First"-isolationists of that era

[underpants]

Joe Conason wrote about them in "Big Lies" it was the first that I had heard of them. I have tried to google it and research it but there is very little written about them.

Yes, they protested US involvement in WWII before and , to a lesser extent, after Pearl Harbor-they stuck to their beliefs regardless of the facts. Conason wrote that it turned out to be a front for Japanese and German agents in the US (though that was not necessarily known by all the America Firsters-useful idiots) and one of the agents was allowed to use a Republican Congressman's office to do some of his work.

Pat Buchanan used that term in his runs for president-that is what swallows up most of the links on google.