Markets are good *only* to the extent they contribute to this civic culture (e.g. through exchange and cooperation); to the extent that markets do not (e.g. by creating competition and inequality), they state should take active steps to ameliorate the social problems they create.
Rather than respond to tariffs by doubling down on free trade, can governemnts take active steps to ameliorate the economic, human, and environmental impacts of globalization.
With the opposition on the defensive, the temptation is to defend the status quo. What is needed is some kind of framework for policies that help ordinary Americans without abandoning the project of an inclusive, multiracial, multicultural democracy.
Here is the original post with my thoughts on nationalist conservatism itself. bsky.app/profile/dwmb...