There’s a lot of hue and cry these days about the American public turning isolationist, seeking to retreat from the world. That, though, is both a misreading of the polls and, frankly, reflects a too-readily dismissive view of what pioneering pollster Elmo Roper once called “the common sense of the common man.”
Two recent polls have been the main impetus for the yet-again isolationist public. CONT.
Bruce W. Jentleson (Duke), The Hill