Editing America First Committee (section)

==Legacy==
In 1983, after his time as president of Yale had concluded,  Brewster said he was glad that he and the other isolationists had failed. He also acknowledged that, consciously or not, there was anti-Semitism among the elites at Yale during that period.<ref name="dunn-338n52"/>
Asked in a 2000 interview whether the leading members of the America First Committee had ever staged a reunion after the war, founder Stuart said, "No, we did not. We may be a little sensitive to the fact that the world still thinks we're the bad guys."<ref name="rosie"/>

Paleoconservative commentator [[Pat Buchanan]] has praised America First and used its name as a slogan. "The achievements of that organization are monumental," wrote Buchanan in 2004. "By keeping America out of World War II until Hitler attacked Stalin in June 1941, Soviet Russia, not America, bore the brunt of the fighting, bleeding and dying to defeat Nazi Germany."<ref>{{Cite news|author-first=Pat|author-last=Buchanan|title=The Resurrection of 'America First!'|url=http://www.theamericancause.org/patamericafirst.htm|publisher=The American Cause|date=October 13, 2004|access-date=2008-02-03|archive-date=2008-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080203051758/http://www.theamericancause.org/patamericafirst.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>  Historian Wayne S. Cole concludes that while the America First Committee did not actually defeat any Roosevelt administration proposal in Congress, it made the margins of several such actions smaller than they would have been otherwise; and that throughout 1941, Roosevelt was constrained in his actions in support of Britain due to isolationist pressures in public opinion that America First did the most to mobilize.<ref>Cole 1953, pp 196–199</ref>

The re-use of the [[America First (policy)|"America First" phrase]] by [[Donald Trump]] in the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 United States presidential election]] led to a look back at the America First Committee through the filter of contemporary events. This included views on the level of extremism found in the 1940–41 movement as well as analysis of whether the new [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] was isolationist in the same sense.<ref name="atl-af-2017"/><ref name="lat-af-2017"/>