If nationalism is really just patriotism fused with a defense of national sovereignty, who is really against that? College professors and clickbait internet polemicists.
Attacks on America's national symbols are becoming increasingly commonplace while appeals to the unifying principles of the Declaration of Independence or Bill of Rights fall flat.
Embedded in the immigration debate is the question of whether affluent countries like the United States have any right to enforce their borders at all, especially if such enforcement will have a disparate impact on poor migrants of color.
Deportation raids are unpleasant and should not be a country's primary enforcement mechanism.
Without denying the global humanitarian role a country as rich and powerful as ours can play, who does the United States government exist to serve primarily? What of our obligations to our own communities of color, including the descendants of slaves, whose suffering remains a stain on our national soul? Are we not more than an idea or a marketplace, a collection of squabbling factions or identity politics subgroups and unrelated consumers?
These are but a few of the questions we can expect the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. to wrestle with.
Such a debate is particularly painful in a country whose sins are real and where certain historical grievances are legitimate.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/national-conservatisms-time-has-come/
Attacks on America's national symbols are becoming increasingly commonplace while appeals to the unifying principles of the Declaration of Independence or Bill of Rights fall flat.
Embedded in the immigration debate is the question of whether affluent countries like the United States have any right to enforce their borders at all, especially if such enforcement will have a disparate impact on poor migrants of color.
Deportation raids are unpleasant and should not be a country's primary enforcement mechanism.
Without denying the global humanitarian role a country as rich and powerful as ours can play, who does the United States government exist to serve primarily? What of our obligations to our own communities of color, including the descendants of slaves, whose suffering remains a stain on our national soul? Are we not more than an idea or a marketplace, a collection of squabbling factions or identity politics subgroups and unrelated consumers?
These are but a few of the questions we can expect the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. to wrestle with.
Such a debate is particularly painful in a country whose sins are real and where certain historical grievances are legitimate.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/national-conservatisms-time-has-come/
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