Untangling the Meaning of ‘Nationalism’

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National Review
Ramesh Ponnuru
Apr. 22, 2017

American conservatism contains a broad nationalist streak. It also contains a smaller streak of theoretical hostility to nationalism. These streaks are sometimes present in the same conservative individuals. This is one conclusion I draw from the debate that Richard Lowry and I began by writing a cover story for this magazine in defense of nationalism. In the weeks following the article’s publication, National Review Online published criticisms by Jonah Goldberg, Ben Shapiro, and Mona Charen, responses to that criticism by John O’Sullivan and Lowry, and another measured defense of nationalism by Yuval Levin.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446962/nationalism-trump-national-review-debates

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This is good other than for the fact that the tangle remains. And that's the norm for these egghead debates. Nothing is resolved and nothing is accomplished.

Nero-conservatives. That's what they are, Nero-conservatives.

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How about people that don't hate their own country?

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Stopped reading right there.

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How about people that don't hate their own country?

They are treated to "accusations" of being populist and nationalist, both hinting at fascist.