I always found Dan Drezner interesting to follow, on twitter, blogging, and in the Post. Now he's moved to Substack and is trying to drum up readership.
He offered three contrarian positions for consideration as possibly attracting interest.
Here's my comments:
Trump voters? May not be that interesting. Remember the yellow dog Democrats? We have rattlesnake Republicans, people who've always voted Republican and will continue to do so. I grew up in upstate NY where if you wanted a choice, you voted in the Republican primary. It took Goldwater's candidacy to break the hold, at least for a while.
Globalization? I'm too old to change from being a free trader. We don't yet know how to have a good safety net for those displaced by it, but I was one of the liberals in the 60's and 70's who opposed Ike's "trade, not aid" (IIRC). Turns out he was righter than we thought. I can't get past the changes in what we called the Third World.. Anti-globalism is just an example of the thermostatic effect on a world scale.
Pandemic northingburger? That's too obvious to be interesting, at least when confined to IR. Sociologically, a different story.
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