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Should Americans Value Nationalism?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The US Constitution Is a Nation State

The phrase nation state is pretty weird sounding, isn't it? Right? It's not redundant in Europe, it actually means something very specific. The United States was not founded for that unless you believe the 1619 project nonsense about that. We are arguably the most nationalist American president ever. God is involved in World War I. Created programs to try to assimilate immigrants to some kind of special centrally planned ordeal that didn't work. If you want to talk about how we have something in common, a civic identity by the way, it's just like oxymoronic phrase doesn't really make any sense.

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