Her overt patriotic traditionalism makes her much better placed in the selling xenophobia stakes anyway. She is ready, waiting and demonstrably able to trump you. What xenophobia is about is selling fear. Which is what the opponents of MAI are about, because there is money in fear, lots of it. Environmental groups make lots of money out of fear.
Journalists fill newspaper and the airwaves with stories playing on fear.
Such social control is particularly important for lobby groups seeking to impose costs on economic activity. There is a lot of money, votes, newstime and even, potentially, power in the great MAI fear beat-up. And the great Jewish conspiracy, we should remember, was also about the evil agents of international capital corrupting green and innocent lands and visiting destruction on the weak and helpless. As for those nasty transnationals, it is often far better for less developed countries if a Western multinational moves in rather than a local company, because the Western company brings its, typically much higher, standards of corporate governance and environmental quality with it. It has to also operate back in Western countries where environmental concerns are a serious issue.