Isolationism Policy Analysis

Isolationism was a policy that restricted the United States of America from involving in the affairs of other nations in Europe but instead concentrate in its own development and internal issues that were of great importance. This isolationist policy gained a greater influence especially from the conservatives during the beginning of the cold war (Brands, 2011). This was because of several policies and feelings of the conservatives that defined the importance of this isolationist policy. The reasons or feelings that made majority of the conservatives in the United States of America to support the policy include; influence by leaders, the hint of anti-elitism and the ideological differences between the conservatives and the liberals. The conservatives were influenced and convinced by some prominent and influential leaders like Joseph Maccarthy who was a republican politician and the senator of Wisconsin state in the United States of America. Maccarthy convinced the conservatives who advocated for the well-being and stronger development of the United States of America that the liberals were conspirators whose work was trying to spread the communist policies among the American citizens. This made many conservatives who were opposed to the liberal policies to support the

The conservatives and other people who supported the isolationist policy in the early 1950s held it that these disruptors were the liberals and the elites from the east who had no idea and mercy on the Americans (Brands, 2011). Another reason why many conservatives backed the policy was the fact that they were viewed as harmless people who could be ruled and their decisions be ignored by the elites from the east who won in every act of decision