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Michael Brendan Dougherty: What Do Nationalists Want?
Michael Brendan Dougherty writes at The Week:
“The new nationalism in Europe and America is no longer rising. It has risen.
But what does this new nationalism stand for? What do the new nationalists who voted for Brexit and Donald Trump actually want? Up until now, they have been defined more by what and who they’re against than by some motivating vision of what kind of world or nation they wish to create, or the kind of people they want to serve and be. And if they don’t soon define what they stand for, these new nationalists could go down in history as just a severe irritant to the global order of the last three decades rather than as a living alternative to it. …”
Bro, you could always ask. You know where to find us.
Basically, nationalists stand for a politics that is grounded in realism and identity, and what flows from that is an iconoclastic attitude and a zealous defense of our concrete interests. In contrast, conservatives believe in idealism and abstract liberal principles. We cling to the particular. You cling to the universal.
Source: http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2017/02/27/michael-brendan-dougherty-what-do-nationalists-want/
