MaxE wrote:
In the past, leaders could be both capitalistic and nationalist. An example might be mid-century USA which produced most of its infrastructure and consumer goods. No need to import anything from outside the country. On the other hand, the US practiced economic colonialism such that manufacturing may have been outsourced to Canada and Latin America, but in such a way that the US exerted control over those enterprises.
At least if you are to consider supremacy over other nations as a form of nationalism.
Probably less likely nowadays, but the attitude of that era lives on.
There's a guy who used to work in the Department of State, Mike Benz, who talks a lot about 'national champion' policies in a similar way to what you said above. You might find him interesting if you haven't run into him yet.
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