America Firster

[fur-ster]

noun

Informal.

1. a member or supporter of the America First Committee.

Word History and Origins

Origin of America Firster¹

1935–40; America First + -er ¹

Example Sentences

But there is one America Firster who to this day is almost universally celebrated by the GOP as a statesman exemplifying pure, principled conservatism: three-time aspirant for the Republican presidential nomination, Sen. Robert A. Taft.

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But in the second half he sounded more like an America Firster who was eager to get out of the Middle East completely and leave the entire mess he had created for other countries to clean up.

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Judging from quick studies of his writings and public pronouncements, O’Brien is not a bring-the-troops-home-and-pull-up-the-drawbridge America Firster.

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As an instinctive isolationist and “America Firster”, Donald Trump mostly abhors foreign entanglements but he is clearly willing to make exceptions.

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This is what happens when an America Firster gains control over a Cold War-vintage military establishment designed to be run by internationalists.

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