Trump and the Nationalist-globalist War
“Since Donald J. Trump’s inauguration a year ago, a war has raged within the White House between ‘nationalists and globalists,’” writes Stewart M. Patrick, in his blog post for January 26 entitled, “Trump at Davos: Nationalism, Globalism, and American Sovereignty.” A nationalist vs. globalist war is indeed raging, as we have been reporting in The New American, and not only in the White House. Patrick, to be sure, is on the side of the globalists. His blog, The Internationalist, is an official propaganda fount for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he works as the James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance and director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program. He is a leading voice for the globalist CFR presidium that has dominated every administration, whether Democrat or Republican, since World War II.
Patrick took umbrage with much of President Trump’s January 26 speech in Davos, Switzerland, to the World Economic Forum, which has long been the annual social gathering of the one-world elites. Like all globalists, he was particularly put off by President Trump’s repeated affirmations of his commitment to national sovereignty. Patrick and his fellow globalists have done their best to discredit nationalism by associating it with “national socialism” (i.e., Nazism, Hitlerism, fascism). However, America’s Founding Fathers were ardent nationalists. They believed in a sovereign United States of America governed by the rule of law — as defined by the U.S. Constitution. They were not isolationists; they believed in trade and relations with all friendly nations. President Trump reaffirmed this vision, noting that “America First does not mean America alone,” and indicating that under his agenda America will remain engaged in the world.
The CFR’s Patrick also dinged the president for “his explicit endorsement of bilateralism over multilateralism,” his antagonism toward the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, and his “disavowal of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.” The usual internationalist intelligentsia echoed Stewart Patrick’s critique of Trump’s speech.
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