Correct that last part to
"the elitist haves and have-nots" and you have something there. But not the whole story.
Globalism in corporate clothing represents a plantation style 21st century form of soft fascism, a sort of "corporate cosmology" the kind which Arthur Jensen pushed on Howard Beale in his
"You have meddled with the primal forces of NATURE" speech that he thundered to a frightened old television crackpot in the dimly lit boardroom in the movie "Network".
And in that case, in that instance, that war is already over and done with. The human side lost, the individuals lost.
All that remains is the class struggle to keep the despair quotient at bay, to retain or revive a small piece of upward mobility that is the right of every man or woman who works hard at their job every day, no matter what it might be.
That IS the liberal side, the left...the mainstream left.
We don't want to talk of nationalism, do we? What is nationalism? It's an attempt to position hatred against other nations, to justify death and destruction of others using defense of one's homeland as an excuse.
Ahhhh, nationalism, when
simple love of country and ordinary red-blooded patriotism is NOT ENOUGH.
That is the extreme alt-Right, the Trumpian Republican right.
And what of the ordinary mainstream conservatives?
In today's America...they are and have been cut adrift for nearly a decade, only some of them won't admit it yet.
They were first given their walking papers in 2010 by the Tea Party.
