Being against free trade is a huge right-wing tell. It's 100% nativism and is one of the waves that Trump rode to being elected.
I don't understand nativism. Never have. Why should you be proud for being born at a particular point on planet earth? If you're a patriotic American born in El Paso, you're only a couple of kilometers from being a patriotic Mexican. Why? It makes zero sense.
right wing opposition to free trade may be nativism, left wing opposition to free trade is 100% anti-imperialism (disclaimer: except for maybe weird patsocs idk, but i dont really count them)
free trade agreements are one of the major cornerstones of imperial wealth extraction from the global south, and deny them national sovereignty, prevent the development of national industry, are horrible for workers rights, and reduce the ability of countries to remove their dependence on the west
dont mistake the anti-globalists of the late 90s/early 2000s for the anti-(((globalists))) of today, they have nothing in common except unfortunately the name
It's literally in the name. No one was an "anti-globalist" twenty years ago. They were anti-globalization. Specifically opposed to finance imperialist. "Globalists" is a coded term for Jews that only entered the discourse a few years ago, but the term somehow got normalized and now everyone is using it, which distorts and disguises it's racist origins.
Being against free trade is a huge right-wing tell. It's 100% nativism and is one of the waves that Trump rode to being elected.
I don't understand nativism. Never have. Why should you be proud for being born at a particular point on planet earth? If you're a patriotic American born in El Paso, you're only a couple of kilometers from being a patriotic Mexican. Why? It makes zero sense.
right wing opposition to free trade may be nativism, left wing opposition to free trade is 100% anti-imperialism (disclaimer: except for maybe weird patsocs idk, but i dont really count them)
free trade agreements are one of the major cornerstones of imperial wealth extraction from the global south, and deny them national sovereignty, prevent the development of national industry, are horrible for workers rights, and reduce the ability of countries to remove their dependence on the west
dont mistake the anti-globalists of the late 90s/early 2000s for the anti-(((globalists))) of today, they have nothing in common except unfortunately the name
It's literally in the name. No one was an "anti-globalist" twenty years ago. They were anti-globalization. Specifically opposed to finance imperialist. "Globalists" is a coded term for Jews that only entered the discourse a few years ago, but the term somehow got normalized and now everyone is using it, which distorts and disguises it's racist origins.
Free trade*
*on the Western conditions
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