The GOP gets to wear this like a cheap suit for 2018.
1. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, believed that he did not need to bring anyone from the Senate, which was Republican (led by Republican Henry Cabot Lodge), to the Paris Peace Conference with him. He planned everything himself, making his goals public without the consent of the committee. The Senate is in charge of approving treaties, and because they were bitter about the Treaty of Versailles, they rejected signing it, which in turn rejected the League of Nations.
2. The United States also practiced a policy of isolationism, the belief that they should stay out of foreign affairs. The League of Nations called for collective security, that when one nation harassed another, all the nations would act. The United States at that time did not want to be connected to other nations' affairs.
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That is what the U.S. needs, too, a massive investment plan for renewable power. Call it a Green New Deal, a domestic Marshall Plan, Infrastructure Modernization for the 21st Century, or whatever, we need to take up The Climate Mobilization’s approach. That is, we need to treat climate change as a crisis at least equal to the crisis we faced in World War II. Few people at the time said “no can do.” We just did it. Or rather our parents and grandparents did.