HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Social Conservatism, North American Free Trade Agreement, White Nationalism
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Era of globalization when people, information, goods, flow across national boundaries. Beginning of global connective world, internet comes out, info flows fast everywhere. First time since 1917 we have capitalist world order. Saw this trend of globalization and capitalist order: aid it (cid:449)as a (cid:862)ne(cid:449) world order(cid:863) Bill clinton democrat (wins: the world clinton comes into, after (cid:1005)(cid:1006) (cid:455)ears of repu(cid:271)li(cid:272)a(cid:374) go(cid:448)er(cid:374)i(cid:374)g . Cli(cid:374)to(cid:374) gets ele(cid:272)ted: seemed way more in tune of what people were more anxious about, beats h. w. Bush republican (1988: we see republican party shift to social conservatism (the part of anti gay, fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)ist, a(cid:271)ortio(cid:374) . In the 80s republican party was focused on economic changes: pat buchanan gets up on stage, friends w/ reagan, on republican convention in. But it is not the kind of change america wants. It is not the kind of change america needs.
