The left's perverted view of 'nationalism'

James Robbins:

You know America is in trouble when the president is viciously slammed simply for saying good things about the country.

Appeals to the inherent goodness and manifest greatness of America used to be a staple of political oratory. It was so commonplace that it was entirely noncontroversial. Love of country was taken for granted.

But when President Donald Trump described himself as a “nationalist” at a rally in Texas, it set off a firestorm of criticism. Nationalism is now the new “n-word.” CNN’s Jim Acosta pathetically insinuated the president was making a secret appeal to racism. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace invoked her History Channel-based education to tie in Nazi appeals to German nationalism, while perhaps being unaware that the Nazis also were ardent socialists. Maybe she missed that program.

This predictable progressive panic is baseless and tiresome. It is a willful misunderstanding of what Trump means when he says nationalist. The president framed the term against “globalist,” which in his words is “a person that wants theglobe to do well, frankly not caring about the country so much.”

This has always been part of the president’s America First agenda, to represent U.S. interests in dealings abroad rather than promoting the internationalist agenda of his predecessors of both parties.

Trump’s nationalism is also a patriotic appeal for national unity and pride. It is a response to progressive tribalism, which seeks to divide the country into grievance groups and promote a narrative of shame. Decades of revisionist history and grievance ideology have corrupted the American story. The left defines politics in terms of alleged oppression that forms the root of their demands as purported victims. Any notion that the United States is praiseworthy disrupts their relentless quest for proof of victimhood.
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The left in this country is too consumed with identity politics to see how it divides us and does not bring us together.  That tribalism accounts for much of their hatred of the President and his agenda which focuses on bringing jobs back to this country that had been exported to others. 

The left has this perverted view that the US is racist and does not deserve the wealth it has created.  They tend to find every person who disagrees with them a racist, sexist bigot and homophobe.  It is a disgusting generalization that is the basis for much of their hate.  I think that many of them have been taught this nonsense by the education system that is dominated by liberals.

If Nicolle Wallace learned anything from the history channel she would be watching Pawn Stars, American Pickers, Counting Cars and Ancient Aliens.  The channel rarely shows history anymore.