American Greatness
Brandon J. Weichert
Oct. 5, 2018
Ever since Donald Trump ascended to the presidency, confused members of the media have been trying to come to grips with their inability to understand him by dubbing him a “populist,†a “nationalist,†or some combination of the two. This has triggered a debate throughout American society. People are conditioned to view these two terms as things associated with negative forces throughout American history. Nationalism, as it is understood by the vast majority of people in academia today, is something rooted in ethnic and religious discrimination. Populism, a term that even the Founding Fathers feared (referring to it as a “mobocracyâ€), usually means the tyranny of the majority.
Like many others, I am also guilty of having used the “nationalist-populist†terminology over the last two years. Certainly, the Trump movement—like the Tea Party movement that preceded it—is based on popular notions of government. But, the nationalism espoused by this movement is neither ethnic nor religious. Instead, it is a civic and economic nationalism. In other words, it is pragmatic and patriotic.
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