As with practically all rhetorical devices, William Shakespeare liked using it (âShe being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the kingâ), but you can thank George Lucas for what is now probably the best-known example: âFear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate.
isolationism. the policy or doctrine directed toward the isolation of a country from the affairs of other nations by a deliberate abstention from political, military, and economic agreements. â isolationist, n.
Foreign policy leaders of the 1930s once again led the country down its well-traveled path of isolationism. The Hoover Administration set the tone for an isolationist foreign policy with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff. Trade often dominated international relations and the protective wall of the tariff left little to discuss.