One thing that struck me about the Josh Hawley controversy is his assumption that most liberals are philosophical cosmopolitans. Speaking as a card-carrying member of both groups, that's just not true.
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Virtually no Democrats or DC policy types believe that there is no moral difference between citizens and non-citizens. It's a tiny minority view, with virtually no power outside a handful of academic disciplines, that Hawley is scapegoating.
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When I was writing about primarily about foreign policy, I noticed that every conversation centered on what was in America's "national interests," not what was good for the world writ large. I wrote about this at one pointhttps://theweek.com/articles/452419/toxic-cult-americas-national-interest …
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Anti-cosmopolitanism is one of the rare things that's actually bipartisan in DC. The fact that Hawley presents it as otherwise suggests one of two things: he doesn't know what he's talking about or he's being dishonest.
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Let me be blunt: he's being dishonest and for a specific partisan reason. To retain his status on the right, he needs to conflate transnational capitalism with the cultural left. If he didn't, he would sound just like a leftist.
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