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Nationalism Is Rising, Not Fascism (good article)
Geopolitical Futures ^ | May 31, 2016 | George Friedman

Posted on 06/01/2016 10:56:03 AM PDT by BlackAdderess

Recently, there have been a number of articles and statements asserting that fascism is rising in Europe, and that Donald Trump is an American example of fascism. This is a misrepresentation of a very real phenomenon. The nation-state is reasserting itself as the primary vehicle of political life. Multinational institutions like the European Union and multilateral trade treaties are being challenged because they are seen by some as not being in the national interest. The charge of a rise in fascism derives from a profound misunderstanding of what fascism is. It is also an attempt to discredit the resurgence of nationalism and to defend the multinational systems that have dominated the West since World War II.

Nationalism is the core of the Enlightenment’s notion of liberal democracy. It asserts that the multinational dynasties that ruled autocratically denied basic human rights. Among these was the right to national self-determination and the right of citizens to decide what was in the national interest. The Enlightenment feared tyranny and saw the multinational empires dominating Europe as the essence of tyranny.(snip)

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; europeanunion; fascism; nationalism; nato; newyork; politicalphilosophy; trump; waronterror
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This is a well-argued article which cuts through a lot of the nonsense being histrionically asserted by the globalists.

You may think to yourself "duh!" but you can't say there hasn't been a tremendous muddying of the waters on this subject.

1 posted on 06/01/2016 10:56:03 AM PDT by BlackAdderess
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To: BlackAdderess

Now that the US is a de facto nation-state, we fit right in.


2 posted on 06/01/2016 10:58:10 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: BlackAdderess

I don’t agree with this modern idea that if I just want my own nation to exist as itself, in peace with the others, that I must be a Nazi. Good article.


3 posted on 06/01/2016 10:59:33 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: BlackAdderess

Nationalism is the core of Conservatism. And Trump is bringing it back.


4 posted on 06/01/2016 11:00:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BlackAdderess

For just fun, I recently torqued off a rabid female relative who thinks Trump is a fascist nazi.
I kindly pointed out that I won’t be in any of the target groups, so I’ll be in the backyard, flipping a Trump steak on the grill, waving at the trains going by on b the way to the camps.

She almost popped a critical vessel.


5 posted on 06/01/2016 11:04:24 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: DesertRhino

Yep, that’s been the propaganda push of the globalists over the last few decades, to equate all nationalism with the most extreme hyper-nationalism (Nazism). The GOPe elites would have us believe that “real conservatism” is at odds with nationalism (see my tagline).


6 posted on 06/01/2016 11:05:41 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: BlackAdderess; RitaOK

Thanks.

BFL


7 posted on 06/01/2016 11:06:02 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: BlackAdderess

“I’m bringing nationalism back (yeah) / them other boys don’t know how to act (take ‘em to the chorus!)”


8 posted on 06/01/2016 11:10:22 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (MAGA! Make America Great Again)
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To: BlackAdderess

Boiling it down, the difference can be fairly concisely stated as the difference between a nation ruled by law which in America is the Constitution and a nation ruled by the whims and fancy of man which is fascism or totalitarianism AKA socialism.

The Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land represents a protection of individual and political freedom against a limited government whereas fascism or socialism represents individual and political slavery under unlimited government power against individual freedom.


9 posted on 06/01/2016 11:12:15 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: BlackAdderess

Fascism is the new Racism. An epithet hurled at anyone voicing truth that is inconvenient to the liberal/globalist agenda.


10 posted on 06/01/2016 11:12:57 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: BlackAdderess

bkmk


11 posted on 06/01/2016 11:18:04 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: dirtboy

The only thing worse than a Fascist is an “Anti-Fascist”.


12 posted on 06/01/2016 11:20:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Nationalism is the core of Conservatism. And Trump is bringing it back.

Exactly. We're "America-Centric", and proud of it. I want the "Press Here For Spanish" prompts removed from ATMs, I suppose that makes me "Gringo-Centric".

13 posted on 06/01/2016 11:23:30 AM PDT by wayoverontheright (a falling camel attracts many knives.......)
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To: BlackAdderess

Bookmark bump


14 posted on 06/01/2016 11:35:08 AM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: dfwgator
There's a big difference between nationalism and Patriotism.
Nationalism leads to unquestioning devotion to country and is easily turned into blindly following a man or government

American Patriotism is a devotion to an ideal. It's an allegiance on a higher plain. A patriot can say as Jefferson believed, “Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God!” That includes tyrants wherever they are especially those in America like Hillary. A Patriot has a freedom a nationalist. Our founding father's were Patriots fighting for their God given rights, it went beyond nationalism.

15 posted on 06/01/2016 11:40:41 AM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. - George Orwell)
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To: BlackAdderess
The very idea of small government self government requires many smaller states vs one massive global superstate...

In the US this is the reason behind power to the states vs a monolithic Federal power

16 posted on 06/01/2016 11:43:02 AM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop; Abbeville Conservative; Abby4116; abigkahuna; adc; Aleya2Fairlie; AllAmericanGirl44; ..

Make America Great Again


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Selected Trump articles on FR, from 10:15 PM yesterday to 3:30 PM EDT today, 6/1/16:
Trump says Ari Emanuel offered to take charge of his convention film –ChicagoTrib
A Trump Presidency Could Keep Some International Students Away –ChronHigherEd
Report: Obama admin installs ‘new regulation every two hours 24 minutes’ –EconCollapseNews
Nationalism Is Rising, Not Fascism –GeopoliticalFutures
How the Senate Is Supposed to Work –Mitch McConnell, WSJ
LIVE THREAD: Trump rally Sacramento, CA, 7:00pm PDT –RightSide
Why Americans are giving up citizenship in record numbers [it’s not Trump] –WaPo
PGA Tour moves golf event from Donald Trump's Doral to Mexico City –CBS
I was wrong: Trump WILL be the next president –Jake Novak, CNBC
Woo hoo!! Should see yellow today!! Let's wrap this baby up!! –Jim Robinson
Trump Univ. Plaintiff Law Firm Paid Clintons $450,000 for Speeches –Jeffrey Lord
Middle-class parents of white Islamic convert 'Jihadi Jack' charged with Terrorism [UK] –DailyMail
VIDEO: Latinos make spirited case FOR Donald Trump –AmericanMirror
Records: Hillary Clinton Has Donated $70,000 To Veterans –Breitbart
Trump Plans to Attend Re-Opening of Scottish Golf Course –ABC
The Anti-P.C. Vote –NYT
Dem adviser: Clinton may not be the nominee –Wash.Examiner
Mitch McConnell: Republican Party Is At An 'All-Time High' –NPR
Best-Run States Are Heavily Republican, Study Finds –IBD
Testy Trump takes his war with the press to a new level –AP/Breitbart
US Immigration Surged 39% in 2014-2015 –CenterForImmigrationStudies
Census: Illegal immigration up 57% to 550,000, one new Albuquerque A YEAR –Paul Bedard
Bernie Marcus: Why I Stand With Donald Trump –Breitbart
Clinton and Trump in Tight Race, Votes Split on Gender Lines –NYT
Trump Has Solid Lead Over Clinton in Georgia (Trump 49%, Clinton 40%) –PPP
Voters trust Trump on economy, Clinton on foreign policy, nuclear weapons – FoxNews
CNN Poll of Polls: Two points separate Clinton and Trump
Quinnipiac National Poll [06/01/16]: Trump 41, Hillary 45
Hillary Clinton has narrow lead over Donald Trump in Michigan: poll –Wash.Times
2016 General Election - Clinton 42, Trump 39 [Morning Consult 5/24-5/30] –HuffPo
Bill Kristol recruiting conservative writer/Iraq vet David French for indie run –HotAir
David French signals the death of the ‘Never Trump’ movement –Chris Cillizza
Kristol’s Candidate: ‘Important to Say’ White Working Class Communities ‘Deserve to Die’ –Julia Hahn
Third parties could throw Clinton vs. Trump into chaos –NYPost
NY Times: Trump, 800-Pound Media Gorilla, Pounds His Chest at Reporters –NYT
When Trump hits back, he hits back hard –CNN
Press targets voters for fueling Trump's rise –Wash.Examiner


17 posted on 06/01/2016 12:37:50 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: BlackAdderess

This is a great article!!!!

Of course, the worthless New York Times has a recent article entitled: “Rise of Donald Trump Tracks Growing Debate Over Global Fascism”!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/world/europe/rise-of-donald-trump-tracks-growing-debate-over-global-fascism.html?_r=0

The REAL problem is authoritarian globalism (represented by the NYT and Crooked Hillary and her cronies)!!!!

The globalists demonize the Orthodox Christian world (especially Serbia and Russia), which has become the greatest point of resistance to the globalist “gay”/atheist empire.

If Crooked Hillary wins, look for her to plunge us into a war with Russia, which may become a nuclear war!!!! The devastation of such a war would give the clintonites a chance to replace the white American working class population that they hate so much with hordes of Third Worlders from south of our border!!!!

In contrast, Donald Trump says, “wouldn’t it be nice if we could get along with Russia”! I much prefer his approach to that of the warmongering clintons and their globalist clique!!!!


18 posted on 06/01/2016 12:59:33 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy
I like your reply

Perhaps, considering the state we're in, Nationalism is a good beginning to get us back to an American patriotism

Nothing is going to happen quickly and the NEA has to be outlawed

The children belong to us, not the socia;lists.

19 posted on 06/01/2016 1:06:18 PM PDT by knarf
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To: BlackAdderess

Most excellent article

for all the never trumpets who accuse him of being a racist, this should be mandatory reading


20 posted on 06/01/2016 2:38:21 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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