Even the World Bank presidential contention echoes doubts about free trade, with the U.S. candidate, Jim Yong Kim, having authored a compilation of anti-globalization tracts back in 2000.
The contention is that the United States, with its commitment to free markets and low taxes, could never rely on big-government socialism the way other countries do.
It turned out that the proponents of a world free of nuclear arms were long on aspiration and short on credible responses to my contention that common sense dictates such an end state would not be desirable, even if it somehow could be achieved.