Sargon: Five False Assumptions of Liberalism
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Correct. If you're going to make it work, you need a sort of "right wing 'classical liberalism'" that is capable of maintaining the population necessary to make classical liberalism's assumptions hold.
A state without borders isn't a state at all. I refer not only the US's porous border but also to reckless free trade policy and the primary allegiance shared by many to a foreign state, or even to a vague idea of humanity-as-a-state. Something has to bind a people. They have to be able to identify their own to maintain cohesion.