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The Left’s Anti-Nationalism Is the Ideology of Western Suicide
Biden and Obama have continued progressives’ endless apology tour for America.
If there is one idea that unites the American Left and motivates its public policy positions it is anti-nationalism. Anti-nationalism pervades the Left’s domestic and foreign policy preferences. This is one reason why the Left so vigorously opposed President Trump’s “America First” agenda, but the Left’s antipathy to nationalism precedes Trump and what some call “Trumpism.” In fact, the Left has used Trump in an effort to delegitimize nationalism, and it appears to be working.
The nationalism espoused by Donald Trump and his followers seeks to place America’s interests “first” in all policies, domestic and international. Trump did not create today’s nationalism, but he did recognize and seek to reaffirm it as president. It is a nationalism that seeks to control our borders against unlimited legal and illegal immigration; a nationalism that seeks to promote America’s wealth despite the inequality of nations; a nationalism that favors U.S. military superiority; a nationalism that believes that alliances are temporary and only useful to the extent that they protect and promote U.S. interests; a nationalism that believes that America is exceptional in relation to the other countries of the world; a nationalism that is based on emotion, custom, and tradition, but that is tempered by reason. It is a nationalism that will outlive Trump’s political demise
When you don’t believe in the superiority of your nation and civilization, you are not equipped to defend and save them. That is the condition of today’s anti-nationalists. Their anti-nationalism could be our undoing. America First nationalism, as the late, great Angelo Codevilla noted, would have been familiar and welcome to George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and most 19th-century U.S. presidents before “progessivism” reared its head in the early 20th century. It is no accident that Burnham marked the beginning of America’s descent toward suicide in the early 20th century. Anti-nationalism is now the ideology of Western suicide.
Biden and Obama have continued progressives’ endless apology tour for America.
If there is one idea that unites the American Left and motivates its public policy positions it is anti-nationalism. Anti-nationalism pervades the Left’s domestic and foreign policy preferences. This is one reason why the Left so vigorously opposed President Trump’s “America First” agenda, but the Left’s antipathy to nationalism precedes Trump and what some call “Trumpism.” In fact, the Left has used Trump in an effort to delegitimize nationalism, and it appears to be working.
The nationalism espoused by Donald Trump and his followers seeks to place America’s interests “first” in all policies, domestic and international. Trump did not create today’s nationalism, but he did recognize and seek to reaffirm it as president. It is a nationalism that seeks to control our borders against unlimited legal and illegal immigration; a nationalism that seeks to promote America’s wealth despite the inequality of nations; a nationalism that favors U.S. military superiority; a nationalism that believes that alliances are temporary and only useful to the extent that they protect and promote U.S. interests; a nationalism that believes that America is exceptional in relation to the other countries of the world; a nationalism that is based on emotion, custom, and tradition, but that is tempered by reason. It is a nationalism that will outlive Trump’s political demise
When you don’t believe in the superiority of your nation and civilization, you are not equipped to defend and save them. That is the condition of today’s anti-nationalists. Their anti-nationalism could be our undoing. America First nationalism, as the late, great Angelo Codevilla noted, would have been familiar and welcome to George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and most 19th-century U.S. presidents before “progessivism” reared its head in the early 20th century. It is no accident that Burnham marked the beginning of America’s descent toward suicide in the early 20th century. Anti-nationalism is now the ideology of Western suicide.
