How the World Works

not one in the grips of religious fundamentalism, where people
around them think the world was created a couple of thousand years
ago.
Another thing that worries them about this ultra-right tendency is
that there’s a populist streak in it. There’s a lot of opposition to
“bigness”—not just big government but big business too. The right
wing doesn’t see the point of things like funding for science, but
business does, because it creates the technology and knowledge
they’ll exploit in the future.
Corporate executives also don’t particularly like the idea of
dismantling international institutions like the United Nations, or
eliminating what’s called foreign aid. They need those institutions,
and they want them around. The jingoist, narrowminded fanaticism
that gave them deregulation, tort reform and the cutback of social
services has another side to it, and they’re definitely concerned
about it.