Hal Brands’s article at War on the Rocks on American internationalism in the Trump years is a good one, too. IMO American internationalists have quite a chore on their hands. They’ve got to convince a lot more Americans that internationalism, at least as they define it, is good for them.
How that can be accomplished when immigrants capture a large percentage of the job gains and the wealthiest 1% of Americans capture most of the income gains is hard for me to reckon. A very large number of Americans clearly don’t think internationalism has worked for them. What if they’re right?
What does internationalism have to do with pumped up valuation multiples in the equities markets for the 1%, and artificially depressed fixed income yields for the 99%?
And every day, the President we elected to effect change, is spoken about on the news as someone who will soon be impeached.
Russians, Russians, Russians. F That, the enemy is within the gates, and controls the content and flow of information. I expect lies when I access media, never disappointed.
They say it doesn’t matter, working class white males are dead dinosaurs. They lost the last three election cycles, maybe they will be right next time.