A critique of MAGA from real socialism
Economic nationalism as constructive cooperation with the world
When I was in high school in the early 1960s, I was taught that criticism included identifying the good as well as the bad, and this is the spirit with which I undertake a critique of the MAGA Movement, a historic anti-establishment movement that prepares to take political power in the United States, with control, albeit narrow, of the three branches of the federal government.
It is not difficult for me to find good things to say about the MAGA Movement. Indeed, I have much respect for Donald Trump, for having forged a new direction in national politics based in a traditional conservative perspective and in common-sense intelligence. As I wrote in my November 19 commentary, “Can the Left recover?”:
MAGA, founded by Trump, is an anti-establishment movement that has matured to formulate a common-sense program that rejects the policies of the two political parties of the last forty-five years. The program includes: sensibly regulating and controlling immigration, and cracking do…