Frankly, I don’t even think a dictionary is going to help me with these definitions. I think we may be needing a new word.
I remember when I learned the word “statist” from Mark Levin’s book. It made sense to me. To me it meant doing things for the entrenched elite in this country. But since then, I’ve come to understand that the entrenched elite in this country aren’t really in this country. Some of them are of it, many are not. Globalist elite is more like it. So “statist” doesn’t mean what it truly is.
Doing things the way the Obama admin, or the congress, wished, was CLEARLY not in the interests of the American people.
Then we come to the word Nationalist. As a child of a Holocaust survivor, it isn’t a pleasant word, but Donald Trump’s clear movement to put America’s actual interests first and not do the bidding of globalists can be described as nationalist. Nevertheless, Hitler did make grievous use of nationalism to the point of invading and decimating other countries. Wanting to make international deals for the good of the People of the USA can’t be the same word used to describe Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles.
It might be nice to have some word that conveys America First, Not Last. Obama’s America was for dark and Muslim peoples of the world, whether belonging here or not, to use the few geese with the golden eggs here as their slaves. The geese were the rich mostly whites of tech and industry. And his policies over 20 more years would have killed most geese.
Those are very trenchant comments. Nationalism did get an ugly connotation after Hitler. I think his was a cult and a fanaticism which made use of the term to cloak their ideas in an socially acceptable framework.
I also prefer Globalist because it is a more accurate representation of what the world is facing at present and coincidentally is more obviously the opposite of National aims. Each Nation is unique and has differing economic drivers & necessities. Each Nation needs to optimize their own economy, trade and infrastructure which is why the EU is failing.
In the context of individual Nations each promoting the good of their own people, international cooperation should establish areas of mutual goals & interests where more can be accomplished together than as individuals but the tail does not wag the dog, Globalist concerns should not dictate National priorities.