The same cosmopolitanism that leads Very Online neoliberals to support open borders and free trade should lead them to *oppose* overwhelming American global hegemony. America has conducted protracted, unjustified wars and propped up antidemocratic leaders for decades. 1/3 https://twitter.com/DylMeisner/status/1248132624758890496

More recently America has shattered its own democratic credibility by electing an authoritarian buffoon, the capstone of a long history of antidemocratic racism. Its trustworthiness as an global steward is frayed as it has abandoned allies and international agreements. 2/3

There may be something to the idea of a pax imperium, where hegemony produces peace. But it involves domination and exploitation of weaker parties. This is the opposite of ethical cosmopolitanism. Globalism means *multilateral* institutions and relationships, not hegemony. 3/3