.@crookedfootball on the challenge the "citizenship premium" (rich world advantage) poses to rich world social democratic parties. Short THREAD. crookedtimber.org/2021/05/26/soc… 
1. Migrant-friendly coalitions should stress the positive-sum angle of cross-border solidarity. The economic growth benefits of immigration are pretty ironclad. This is the absolute benefit Bertram identifies. There's still the relative standing to address ...
2a. Stress and *cultivate* the political advantages of free movement. More workers at least potentially means more labor power in struggles against the oligarchic class. This at least addresses relative standing against the domestic rich, if not the rest of the world.
2b. This is inspired by Suzy Lee's left case for open borders. But it's similar to the @hmcghee case for positive sum antiracist politics that I've been going on about lately. Immigrants aren't the enemy. They're allies against system-rigging elites. catalyst-journal.com/2019/03/the-ca…
3. A la @mattyglesias, emphasize national greatness. "America rocks because we offer a golden door to those yearning to breathe free." This harnesses patriotism for cosmopolitan ends & provides a pro-social outlet for concerns about relative standing against other countries.
4. Aggressively proselytize the liberal ethos of openness. Freedom of movement means saying *Yes to people.* The YIMBY and @ne0liberal movements are very good on this.
A note on populism: #2 above could be interpreted as populist, and that's fine, but I also think that calling out and eroding entrenched advantage, like that of the citizenship premium and elites fostering division within the working class, is an old, venerable liberal agenda.
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