1. The person who is best situated to provide a theoretical account of Trumpism is, strangely enough, Perry Anderson.
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2. I'm re-reading Anderson's under-rated American Foreign Policy & Its Thinkers, which really illuminates contradiction that gave us Trump.
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3. Anderson argues at beginning of Cold War emerged contradiction in US foreign policy between national interest & upholding global capital
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4. In terms of national interest, US policy was long to push for "open door" on trade with other countries.
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5. But USA emerged as superpower, it had to forgo traditional "open door" policy to help rebuild shattered allies in Europe & Asia
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6. In Anderson's account, USA asa guardian of global capital had to occasionally sacrifice its immediate financial interestpic.twitter.com/v3WdLB6Xu3
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7. There have always been Americans -- starting with Herbert Hoover & Robert Taft -- who have seen this internationalism as a sucker's deal
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8. The anti-internationalist tradition (Taft, the Nixon of the Nixon Shocks, Perot, Buchanan) think underwriting global capitalism hurts USA
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8. This internationalist/unilateralist battle is a struggle within American capitalism, representing two different sectors of business.
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9. Internationalists tend to be finance capital & the big corporations: people with global ties & a long run perspective.
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10. Unilateralists tend to come from small business & inland manufacturing. People who, like Trump, see little advantage from globalism
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11. Trump's various "isolationist" moves (not affirming Article 5, pulling out of Paris Accord) meet with most resistance from big capital.
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