‘Economic Nationalism’

“If you look at the lines of work, I would break it up into three verticals or three buckets. The first is kind of national security and sovereignty. ... The second line of work is what I refer to as economic nationalism.”
Stephen Bannon, at CPAC

So, just what is Economic Nationalism?
Economic nationalism is formally defined as encompassing domestic control of the economy, protectionist policies such as tariffs and opposition to trade and immigration.

Daniel Kreiss, a University of North Carolina professor who studies political language, said Mr. Bannon’s phrase emerge from “a very defined cultural and ideological movement” that has grown out of populist online communities like Breitbart.

That vernacular, he said, is used to articulate a “very coherent story about what America is, and what it should be, that is not reducible to a set of policy positions” — but only if you know how to hear it.

 Mr. Kreiss said that, after months of studying Breitbart, he concluded that it was seen “less as a proscribed set of policies” than as a way to declare opposition to the long-held bipartisan consensus that favors trade and immigration.

The Breitbart site often describes an all-encompassing clash between “nationalists” and “globalists.”

In this worldview, American interests are assumed to be at odds with those of the rest of the world, and immigration is seen as undercutting the national identity — with “globalists” the enemy within.

So, conflict, not cooperation with the world. Tariffs, opposition to trade. Protectionism.

And, the movement's champion is a billionaire with business interests all over the world?