"The American nationalist intellectual movement was mobilized by a book, The Virtue of Nationalism, written by Israeli intellectual, Yoram Hazony. Its political leader is Viktor Orbán. Its second conference was held in Italy. Its conferences’ speakers include Hungarian, Italian, and French politicians. And its Catholic members want to move the U.S. capital to Vatican. They are obsessed with what is happening in Australia and Canada and Finland. What bleeping nationalism is this?I'd always been a little confused by the reflexive leg-humping of foreign strongmen like Orban, Bolsonaro, and Putin by the pseudo populists who have grabbed TRUMP flags from the merchandise booths and elbowed their way to the front of the MAGA parade (and I say "pseudo populists" because they are, almost to a man, upper class coastal types and Ivy League grads larping as trucker-hat-wearing, country-music-listening, gun lovers), but this essay nails it dead center mass.
Alternative Explanation: They are not nationalists. They are the same globalists they hate, just that they want a different kind of globalism."
Put another way, "As Orwell understood, when they see someone wielding the whip, they want to get their hands on it."
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