America’s Nationalist Awakening
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By Christopher DeMuth,
Why has such an old idea suddenly become new again? Because progressive government has failed to keep its promises and broken the people’s trust..
The American nation-state is rich, powerful and less constrained than any other, yet it is much more constrained than we have led ourselves to believe. Thinking of ourselves as a nation-state is, as Peter Thiel has observed, a means of unromantic self-knowledge. National conservatism, by directing our attention to our nation as it is—warts, wonders and all—is a means of reminding ourselves of our dependence on one another in the here and now, and of facing up to the constraints that are the sources of productive freedom.
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