Is "America First" Really Hijacking The MAGA Movement?

Scott Pinsker, who has written for Foxnews.com, The Washington Times, Breitbart, Jewish World Review, and Bulldog Reporter and was the creator and executive producer of National Lampoon's Strip Poker in 2005 filmed at a nudist resort in Jamaica, writes in a piece for PJ Media, "How to Hijack the MAGA Movement," that the weakness of MAGA is the definition of "America First". According to Pinsker, the term is broad enough to include both "aggressively engaging with the world, but doing so on our own terms, prioritizing our national interests" or those Jew-hating isolationists. No, I'm not exaggerating. Pinsker writes:

    If you’re an isolationist, the Trump administration has been an unmitigated disaster.

    But we can’t challenge Trump directly. He’s still too popular with our base.

    So, to wrest the MAGA movement out of his hands, we need a villain — someone we can blame for tricking Donald Trump. That way, we’re not anti-Trump; we’re simply against the evildoers who hoodwinked and manipulated Trump.

    Which leads us straight to Israel, Christian Zionism, and those pesky, meddlesome, disloyal Jews.

    Instead of arguing that Donald Trump betrayed MAGA with interventionist policies, it’s safer to argue that Trump was tricked by the dastardly Bibi Netanyahu, who’s forcing America to do Israel’s bidding.   

In fact, according to Pinsker, if you favor isolationist policies, you also must believe that Trump is being blackmailed by Israel because of compromising material gathered by Epstein.  

    I guess that George Washington, who warned about foreign entanglements, must have been one of those anti-American, Jew-hating isolationist hicks as well. 

    The problem with Pinsker and those like him is that they don't have any good arguments for an "Israel First" position so they create these false dichotomies in which you either must accept AIPAC's assertion that Israel is the indispensable ally that keeps America safe, strong and prosperous--that "Israel is the country most important to America’s long-term strength and position in the world"--or be some sort of "head-in-the-sand" isolationist--"America Alone" as some have termed it. To Pinsker, there are no positions between the two extremes. 

    But as the old maxim goes, "nations don't have friends, only interests"; or as Lord Palmerston more eloquently put it: "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow." That is essence of "America First". The Israeli government practices this in respect to its interests even when it harms the U.S.--e.g., the U.S.S. Liberty, Jonathan Pollard and Lawrence Franklin--so why shouldn't America also look to its own interests above all others?