{"id":39669,"date":"2018-10-25T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39669"},"modified":"2018-10-25T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T12:00:17","slug":"there-is-no-good-kind-of-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39669","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Good Kind of Nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

There Is No Good Kind of Nationalism<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Trump is for nationalism. So the \u201cResistance\u201d is predictably for . . . wait for it . . . the right kind<\/em> of nationalism \u2014 or nationalism worn properly<\/em>, as The Week<\/a><\/em> advises. The problem isn\u2019t nationalism, The Hill<\/a><\/em> informs us, it\u2019s phony nationalism and spurious nationalism, or as the Washington Post<\/a><\/em> explains along with CNN<\/a>, the problem is actually white nationalism. Of course, white nationalism is<\/em> a problem, but not just because it\u2019s white \u2014 also because of the nationalism. Unless you read Esquire<\/a><\/em> which comes up with the oh-so-novel pronouncement that nationalism is indeed bad, but patriotism is good.<\/p>\n

Excuse me. I\u2019m sorry. This is why the Resistance doesn\u2019t resist. This is why people offering flags and manure win. The loyal opposition is offering smaller flags, manure, and air fresheners.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s wrong with nationalism, you ask. Can\u2019t I love a location? Can\u2019t I care for my loved ones? Must I hate babies and apple pie? What is wrong with you?<\/p>\n

Well, if you love your town why not try out townism? Does your town have a flag? An anthem? Can you perform the proper rituals? Why not? You\u2019re not a traitor, are you? Did Putin hire you to tear up treaties with Russia, and sanction Russia, and take over markets from . . . oh, forget it.<\/p>\n

Do you love your state? Your region? Your continent? Well why aren\u2019t you insisting on all of those isms? I\u2019ll tell you why. Because they aren\u2019t needed. It\u2019s not that they aren\u2019t needed because those levels of collective identity aren\u2019t associated with war machines. Rather it is that nationalism consists of association with a war machine, identification with that war machine, and belief that you and your war machine are superior to others.<\/p>\n

Well, can\u2019t that be a harmless private matter?<\/p>\n

Some have seriously tried to make that case, and I\u2019ve found it completely unconvincing.[i]<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There Is No Good Kind of Nationalism Trump is for nationalism. So the \u201cResistance\u201d is predictably for . . . wait for it . . . the right kind of nationalism \u2014 or nationalism worn properly, as The Week advises. The problem isn\u2019t nationalism, The Hill informs us, it\u2019s phony nationalism and spurious nationalism, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[145,12254,7844,6736,1047,3581,5168,15519,21131,827,5228,5510],"class_list":["post-39669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-cnn","tag-david-swanson","tag-donald-trump","tag-exceptionalism","tag-nationalism","tag-patriotism","tag-resistance","tag-the-hill","tag-the-week","tag-united-states","tag-washington-post","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39670,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669\/revisions\/39670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}