![]() The essential point, also made eloquently by Charles de Gaulle, is that not only are nationalism and patriotism not the same, the gap between them is not some difference of degree. ![]() For this, we can turn once again to George Orwell, the legendary British theorist who, more recently, has become a prop for diaper-wearing right-wing propagandists who looked him up on brainy quote dot com. Now that the President of the United States has embraced it as his own, it's worth digging into what the term "nationalist" actually means and the historical baggage it carries. In the context of a globalized, entirely interconnected world-a development Trump is powerless to reverse-it is fantasy. ![]() ![]() It's the kind of binary nonsense that authoritarian types feed on, an us-or-them formulation where the United States can succeed, or the wider world can succeed, but you can't have both. The juxtaposition here between "globalist" and "nationalist" is a Steve Bannon joint-a nice hat-tip to the guy on a day where he could be found playing a near-empty conference room on Staten Island. ![]()
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