Again: that's the n on-Nazi side, for anyone who went for a stroll in Charlottesville last year. You'll note they were on the other side in World War II, of which we all used to agree the U.S. The most infamous examples of runaway nationalism in Orwell's time were Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. They are often wholly contrasting emotional forces, as Orwell writes in his Notes on Nationalism : Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. 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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