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>So you're just going to ignore the entire Cold War which saw the most foreign interventions and expansion of "spheres of influence" primarily under Republican presidents huh?
No, you mean under democrats. Truman kickstarted the Cold War and post-WW2 interventionism even though the US had no reason to stay involved in global affairs, and his Truman Doctrine and Domino Theory affected policy for the rest of the 20th century. He was the one who intervened in Korea, Costa Rican civil war, the Chinese Civil War, and got the US involved in the middle east. He committed aid to the French in the French-Inodchina War, the policies and commitments of which would carry over to the Vietnam War, which LBJ pulled the US into. Did Eisenhower and Nixon carry on the policies of interventionist democrats? Yes. Were democrats the main drivers of Cold War interventionism? Yes, and Truman was the main architect of decades of policy to proceed him.

>You're also going to ignore the actual two shifts in Republican politics being the 1960s, when they swapped moderates for Dixiecrats as well as the beginning of Nixon shredding the separation of church and state to court and promote Evangelical voters resulting in the 70s take over of the Republican party by Evangelical churches?
The "swap" was basically white dixiecrats for blacks, who were already leaving the republican party. The Southern Strategy was a response to losing votes, not a conscious effort to swap voting bases. Anyway, dixiecrats were fundamentally focused on american race relations and states vs federal rights. They had nothing to do with interventionism, and neither did the Christian conservatives.

>You're also just ignoring how it was the hippy commies that were the ones against interventions and foreign wars throughout the 1960s all the way up to the 1980s?
Hippies ranged from commies to libertarians, it was a mixed group. And a lot of american communists were blatantly pro-soviet and pro-communist expansion

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