1. Perry Anderson's very fine & under-rated book "American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers" holds up very well in wake of Trump's victory.
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2. Anderson's core argument is there was a longstanding tension between American nationalism & its role as guaranteer of global capitalism.
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3. Concrete example is trade: as bulwark of global capitalism, US promotes trade agreements that sometimes hurts local USA industries.
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4. What Trump campaign successfully exploited this tension, to portray itself as on nationalist side of nationalist/global capitalist divide
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5. To put it another way, bipartisan foreign policy consensus (trade/alliances) didn't benefit many Americans. Trump used that as a wedge
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6. Anyways, I reviewed Anderson here & recommend the book highly:https://newrepublic.com/article/121921/perry-andersons-american-foreign-policy-and-its-thinkers …
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It's kind of a fanboy ode to Fredric Jameson -- but good.
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