>The Naderites explain their relationship with Milliken simply as smart
>politics, a "tactical alliance" no different from Senators John McCain and
>Russ Feingold working together on campaign finance reform.
When I asked Wallach about this for The Nation's WTO forum, here's what she said:
>In some of these trade fights, there have been strange coalitions
>between presumably leftish forces and right-wing Republicans and
>reactionary businesspeople like the anti-union textile magnate Roger
>Milliken. How do you feel about those alliances?
>
>Wallach: What's happened has more to do with where the public is
>than where the prominent figures of the left or the right are. On a
>handful of issues, like globalization, campaign finance and
>corporate welfare, I see that people you would think of as really
>right wing and people you'd think of as the left of the left are
>closer to one another than to moderates or centrists. Obviously
>people agree a lot more on what they're against than on what they
>are for, and what they are for is very different, depending on
>whether you are Pat Buchanan or Ralph Nader.
She started to characterize Buchanan's stance and how it differed from Nader's but she stopped herself, so I edited it out.
Doug