After the death of Taft and as the Eisenhower foreign policy began to take on the frozen Dullesian lineaments of permanent mass armament and the threat of “massive nuclear retaliation” throughout the globe, isolationist sentiment starting to fade away, even among old libertarian and isolationist compatriots who should have known better.
Old friends who used to scoff at the “Russian threat” and had declared The Enemy to be Washington, DC now began to mutter about the “international Communist conspiracy.”
Young libertarians coming into the ranks were increasingly infected with the Cold War mentality and had never even heard of the isolationist alternative. Young libertarians wondered how it was that Murray Rothbard upheld a “Communist foreign policy.” FULL ARTICLE BY ROTHBARD
Decline of the Old Right
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