The Empire Strikes Back: How Right-Wing Oligarchs Are Becoming the “Globalists” They Claim to Hate

From Nationalists to Empire-Builders: How Right-Wing Oligarchs Are Quietly Becoming the Globalists They Claim to Hate

For decades, the American right-wing has railed against the ominous specter of "globalism." The term—vague by design—has been weaponized to signify everything from free trade agreements to imagined plots by shadowy elites to undermine national sovereignty. Yet, in a twist worthy of an Orwellian plotline, the same oligarchs who decry "globalism" seem inc…