Is rampant Globalization pushing Right Wingers and Progressives together on trade issues?

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14. I'm not sure that is the right term. Before FDR republicans raised tariffs repeatedly but it did not

benefit American workers, just American corporations.

If that is 'economic nationalism' it is a perverted definition of the term and not one that FDR would have agreed with. You could more easily describe FDR as an 'economic nationalist' in the sense that he acted in the interests of American workers with a host of liberal economic policies while expanding trade by lowering tariffs and eventually going with a multi-country trade organization.

I think calling right wing isolationism "economic nationalism" is giving conservatives way too much credit and damning FDR with faint praise. "Economic nationalism" is not walls and higher tariffs to isolate us from the rest of the world, but intelligent liberal policies (although they will not fit on a baseball cap) designed to raise living standards for American workers.