The liberal world order, a system based on open borders and open societies, is increasingly under attack. In the past, it was mainly left-wing anti-capitalists and right-wing nationalists who fulminated against globalization, while the mainstream consensus was solidly behind it. Not anymore.xIn the United States, the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has declared, “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.” Trump blames globalization and immigration for the decline of the American working class. On the other side of the Atlantic, Britain voted to leave the European Union, with calls to limit the number of immigrants allowed into the country featuring …read more
Source: The American Interest
