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The existence of a sizable body of voters with a known prejudice will exert a powerful attraction on any group of politicians. For Republican leaders, the prospect of an isolationist comeback must be particularly tantalizing. They cannot help recalling that the last and, in some respects, most luxurious era of Republican power began in 1920, when isolationist sentiment almost wrecked the Democratic Party. They must also remember that the emotions stirred by Hitler’s war wrested eight states from Franklin Roosevelt. Republican leaders are gambling on a revival of the old isolationist vote to sweep them to victory in 1952. Who are these isolationists? What made them isolationists in the first place? …