The venerable history of protectionism<\/em>\u00bb. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLighthizer va chercher ses exemples dans l’histoire des USA, parmi les plus prestigieux, d’Alexander Hamilton \u00e0 Lincoln, de Theodore Roosevelt \u00e0 Ronald Reagan. Il montre \u00e0 propos du protectionnisme que, loin de constituer un sacril\u00e8ge pour les conservateurs, ce serait plut\u00f4t l’inverse qui pourrait \u00eatre sollicit\u00e9. Effectivement, les purs libre-\u00e9changistes, les libre-\u00e9changistes dogmatiques sont plut\u00f4t des adversaires des conservateurs. Lighthizer le conservateur fait un proc\u00e8s en r\u00e8gle des libre-\u00e9changistes, et un proc\u00e8s aux termes s\u00e9v\u00e8res mais bien choisis<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abReagan’s pragmatism contrasted strongly with the utopian dreams of free traders. Ever since Edmund Burke criticized the French philosophes, Anglo-American conservatism has rejected ivory-tower theories that disregard the realities of everyday life.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbModern free traders, on the other hand, embrace their ideal with a passion that makes Robespierre seem prudent. They allow no room for practicality, nuance or flexibility. They embrace unbridled free trade, even as it helps China become a superpower.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThey see only bright lines, even when it means bowing to the whims of anti-American bureaucrats at the World Trade Organization. They oppose any trade limitations, even if we must depend on foreign countries to feed ourselves or equip our military.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThey see nothing but dogma no matter how many jobs are lost, how high the trade deficit rises or how low the dollar falls.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tDe l\u00e0, une attaque pr\u00e9cise et assez forte contre McCain, le candidat r\u00e9publicain, qui fait une surench\u00e8re de z\u00e8le libre-\u00e9changiste pour rallier \u00e0 lui les conservateurs du partis, ceux qui ont bien du mal \u00e0 le consid\u00e9rer comme leur candidat. Or, McCain se trompe, estime Lighthizer, et obtient l’inverse de ce qu’il cherche.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abMcCain still faces a large challenge from his right in the fall, as many conservatives suspect he isn’t really one of them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbTo prove his bona fides as a conservative, McCain and his defenders often cite his support for free trade. A writer in National Review, for example, suggested last year that conservatives should support Senator McCain because he is, in McCain’s own estimation, the strongest free trader in the Senate since Phil Gramm (an adviser to McCain) left that body.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMcCain may be a conservative. But his unbridled free-trade policies don’t help make that case.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCette approche n’est pas historiquement fausse, tant s’en faut, non plus qu’il soit historiquement faux que les libre-\u00e9changistes se recrutent aussi bien chez les lib\u00e9raux qui ne sont pas n\u00e9cessairement des conservateurs, tant s’en faut l\u00e0 aussi. Par cons\u00e9quent, la critique contre McCain n’est pas, non plus, infond\u00e9e. On pourrait m\u00eame avancer qu’elle constitue un des plus gros probl\u00e8mes du candidat r\u00e9publicain: il voudrait faire plus r\u00e9publicain (plus conservateur) et il va dans le sens du libre-\u00e9changiste, dont il s’av\u00e8re qu’il n’est pas si r\u00e9publicain que cela, qu’il n’est m\u00eame pas r\u00e9publicain du tout si l’on va aux d\u00e9monstrations extr\u00eames.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tAu fait, qui est encore libre-\u00e9changiste? Car les d\u00e9mocrates le sont fort peu, malgr\u00e9 les allusions de Lighthizer pour s’en d\u00e9marquer. Puisque les d\u00e9mocrates ne le sont plus gu\u00e8re malgr\u00e9 leurs r\u00e9f\u00e9rences historiques qu’on ignore en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, puisque les vrais conservateurs ne le sont pas tant que cela, malgr\u00e9 la politique qu’on pr\u00e9tend leur imposer, qui est encore libre-\u00e9changiste?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tEt si tout cela marquait, plus simplement, la crise de la globalisation, dont le libre-\u00e9change est le principal moteur? Alors, toutes les tendances politiques seraient ainsi r\u00e9concili\u00e9s McCain a int\u00e9r\u00eat \u00e0 s’en apercevoir, fissa<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 7 mars 2008 \u00e0 14H13<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lorsqu’un r\u00e9publicain bon teint de tendance conservatrice bien respectable prend la plume pour vous d\u00e9montrer que le protectionnisme, ce n’est pas si d\u00e9testable qu’il para\u00eet, et qu’il adresse ce message au candidat r\u00e9publicain John McCain, c’est qu’il y a anguille sous roche. L’auteur auquel nous nous r\u00e9f\u00e9rons, c’est Robert E. Lighthizer, avocat des questions de… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3557,7461,4063,1097],"class_list":["post-69737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-libre-echange","tag-lighthizer","tag-mccain","tag-protectionnisme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}