3/ the idea that we could defeat evil worldwide with our military. Just spread liberal Western democracy like we did in Japan and Germany,
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4/ and the world will be better, right?Libertarian arguments in favor of free trade have dominated the post-WW2 era. Businesses want to be
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5/ able to sell to other countries. Immigration has been promoted by libertarians, the anti-racism left, and the cheap labor
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#cuckservative) right. Business owners want more consumers, and property owners want the additional demand for their assets/land that1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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7/ immigration brings.In the 80s and 90s, the left had an anti-globalization and environmentalist fringe, and the right had a small
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8/ paleoconservative wing. Ross Perot shook up the 1992 election with a nationalist (anti-NAFTA) platform, but ultimately he didn't have
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9/ much influence. The left had some small anti-globalization protests in 1999 (Seattle WTO riot), but since then the nationalist left has
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10/ all but disappeared--subordinated by anti-racism. Despite being in different parties, Clinton and Bush both promoted the globalist
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11/ agenda, and they both used US military inverventions (especially Bush).Very recently, the nationalist right has begun to emerge as a
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12/ more powerful force. The alt-right, dark enlightenment, and
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13/ and @vdare are bringing anti-immigration to a wider audience. Donald Trump also represents this trend--his sudden popularity indicates
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14/ that there's a large untapped source of nationalist voters out there who haven't really had a home in either party.
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15/ Interestingly, even the "Tea Party" Republicans have barely tapped into this kind of nationalism.
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