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>Woodrow Wilson was a globalist
Not quite. While one could refer to him as an internationalist, using what we refer to as "globalism" today, he wasn't. The world was much more more unstable during this period. As he saw various European countries go to war with each other every year of his presidency, he understood there could be a better solution. Thus, he proposed the League of Nations. The League of Nations wouldn't have shipped jobs overseas, it wouldn't have forced immigration from less successful countries to successful ones, it wouldn't have mandated nation building, it simply would have allied our country with others, and thus avoided war. As institutions like the U.N. prove, this was ultimately the right call. Additionally, Wilson was the first candidate to run on the platform "America First."
>Woodrow Wilson believed the government should be run by the "elites".
I heard Kike Shapiro use this one recently. It's completely false. Woodrow Wilson went even harder on trust-busting than his two predecessors, and unlike Roosevelt, didn't believe their was such thing as a good trust. He created the FTC which had more leverage in pursuing trust-busting than the congress, and signed the Clayton Antitrust Act, busting trusts and making business more fair. He was opposed by the business interest of the time greatly.
Not quite. While one could refer to him as an internationalist, using what we refer to as "globalism" today, he wasn't. The world was much more more unstable during this period. As he saw various European countries go to war with each other every year of his presidency, he understood there could be a better solution. Thus, he proposed the League of Nations. The League of Nations wouldn't have shipped jobs overseas, it wouldn't have forced immigration from less successful countries to successful ones, it wouldn't have mandated nation building, it simply would have allied our country with others, and thus avoided war. As institutions like the U.N. prove, this was ultimately the right call. Additionally, Wilson was the first candidate to run on the platform "America First."
>Woodrow Wilson believed the government should be run by the "elites".
I heard Kike Shapiro use this one recently. It's completely false. Woodrow Wilson went even harder on trust-busting than his two predecessors, and unlike Roosevelt, didn't believe their was such thing as a good trust. He created the FTC which had more leverage in pursuing trust-busting than the congress, and signed the Clayton Antitrust Act, busting trusts and making business more fair. He was opposed by the business interest of the time greatly.