'New Nationalism' and the Corporate Economy

"The magnification of the total, inescapable state, always advanced as a victory for “the common man,” never failed to further consolidate power and wealth in a well-connected elite. Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism,” so favorably invoked by President Obama’s speech, was rooted firmly in a jingoistic sense of American Exceptionalism that, among other things, treated empire as the country’s birthright."