Donald Trump could hold make increase the amount of green cards that the US hands out to skilled workers. Nixon went to China and if Trump acts in a way that actually furthers immigration and that reduces the total tariff burdens I’m open to accepting him as a progressive internationalist.
Personally I’d want more evidence than that. I think Trump-as-progressive-internationalist is more or less on the borderline of things that it’s not crazy to imagine finding sufficient evidence to believe. (ISIS-as-peaceful-organization is well beyond it—I guess the most plausible way to get such evidence would be for it to turn out that we in the west have been systematically deceived about ISIS to such an extent that our ideas about it are almost entirely wrong, but I think I’d describe that situation as “turns out ISIS, as we believed in it, was a made-up organization, and there happens to be another entirely different one that shares its name” rather than “ISIS turns out to be peaceful”.)
Donald Trump could hold make increase the amount of green cards that the US hands out to skilled workers. Nixon went to China and if Trump acts in a way that actually furthers immigration and that reduces the total tariff burdens I’m open to accepting him as a progressive internationalist.
Personally I’d want more evidence than that. I think Trump-as-progressive-internationalist is more or less on the borderline of things that it’s not crazy to imagine finding sufficient evidence to believe. (ISIS-as-peaceful-organization is well beyond it—I guess the most plausible way to get such evidence would be for it to turn out that we in the west have been systematically deceived about ISIS to such an extent that our ideas about it are almost entirely wrong, but I think I’d describe that situation as “turns out ISIS, as we believed in it, was a made-up organization, and there happens to be another entirely different one that shares its name” rather than “ISIS turns out to be peaceful”.)