[nicollo]

Before “nationalism” was used as a slur against patriotism, it meant quite explicitly, “centralized government.”

Somehow this is lost on leftists who call Trump a fascist.

TR’s “New Nationalism” was about centralizing, or “nationalizing,” government, economy, policing, etc. under the federal, or centralized, governance

And, yes, “nationalism” — in this sense and only in this sense — was picked up by the fascists in Italy, Germany and the U.S. in the 1930s, which was called in the US the “New Deal.”

Fascism = centralized control of the economy, society, and law in partnership with select, centrally-approved big businesses.

Gee, where are we today, again?

[ProgressingAmerica]

This is exactly right, your first and second lines.

Essentially, Trump did violence to Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy and we’re better off because of it.

[central_va]

Before “nationalism” was used as a slur against patriotism, it meant quite explicitly, “centralized government.”

Uh, no.

na·tion·al·ism /ˈnaSH(ə)nəˌlizəm/ noun

1. identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations: "their nationalism is tempered by a desire to join the European Union"