If nothing else this trade war will get people to feel the effects of globalization (both positive and negative).

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The premise was that globalization gud because entangling trade makes it more expensive to start wars.

It wasn't wrong, now we're working through the "more expensive" part.

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So MAGA is Occupy Wallstreet co-opted by wallstreet?

I agree with what you’re saying.

To explain my remark: Occupy was an anti-globalist movement, who blamed wallstreet for their woes.  

Trump’s actions are anti-globalist, but unlike Occupy, Trump is pro-wallstreet.  So you could say that MAGA channeled that Occupy emotion into a pro-wallstreet movement.

Not tracking the analogy?

I think the argument is that the barrier to territorial war is much lower without having trade war as a buffer. Maybe without trade agreements (and the consequential reorganization of the economies around them), we'd already be living in the 51st territory.