Tucker Carlson says correctly that Ronald Reagan was an early proponent of legalizing abortion in his state. He also says incorrectly that Reagan signed a large immigration amnesty because he was tired of being called a racist in the press. The reason for both of Reagan’s positions is the same: he was a neoliberal. In fact, he was one of the earliest major politicians who were neoliberals.
Neoliberals are, of course, a variety of liberals. This is why the next big American neoliberal after Reagan was Bill Clinton, who shipped American manufacturing to China. Neoliberals do not like the concept of a country because this concept constrains freedom of movement.
It isn’t the freedom of human beings, however, that interests neoliberals. They will lock you down in a flash if it serves their only real purpose, which is to ensure freedom of movement for flows of money. The direction in which they want the money to be moving is upwards. If it serves that goal to drag large groups of the population across national borders or, alternatively, lock people down in their homes, they will gladly do both.
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