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Undated: The Difference Between 'Patriotism' and 'Nationalism'
Although treated as synonyms, there is a distinction. But it's more complicated than "'patriotism' good; 'nationalism' bad."
... people may not all view certain words and values as equal. Nationalism and patriotism present us with an appropriately problematic pair with which to illustrate this. Are these words synonymous? Is one an insult, and the other not? Can either of them mean different things to different people?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/patriotism-vs-nationalism
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March 9: Bill Clinton on the rise of nationalism: 'We are all having an identity crisis at once'
"This is a global deal. It is like we are all having an identity crisis at once," Clinton said about nationalism in Europe, the United States and Asia. "What happened 20 years ago is a microcosm of what is coming full bloom today. And these things are going to need to be worked out."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/politics/bill-clinton-yitzhak-rabin-world/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
October 16: Reflecting on his decades-long political history, [Senator John] McCain warned that to "fear" the world the US has led for the better part of a century, "abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe" and "refuse the obligations of international leadership ... for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems" is unpatriotic.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/politics/john-mccain-joe-biden-liberty-medal/index.html
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January 3: Trump’s Nationalism Is Arbitrary, Dangerous, Incoherent, and Silly
Nationalism has a new voice. That makes it all the more imperative to take its claims seriously and meet them head on.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/03/trumps-nationalism-is-arbitrary-dangerous-incoherent-and-silly/
August 19: The unlikely spin doctor to the Philippines’ Trump
Harry Roque used to be a human rights lawyer. Now he speaks for a president who attacks the free press and boasts of shooting people.
For 15 years, Harry Roque worked as a human rights lawyer in the Philippines, building a name for himself and the organization he founded by teaching law in Manila and taking on several high-profile cases. He represented families of the 58 victims, many of them journalists, of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre, which the Committee to Protect Journalists cites as the single deadliest event ever for the profession; he represented Filipina “comfort women” forced into brothels under Japanese occupation during World War II; he went head-to-head with former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s government over its declaration of a state of emergency.
These days, Roque steps up to the podium three times a week as the official spokesman for and most visible public defender of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, a blunt talker who has repeatedly attacked the free press, boasted about personally shooting people when he was a mayor and is best known internationally for leading a brutal extrajudicial drug war. Duterte, whose brazenness sometimes draws comparisons to Donald Trump, is one of a growing crop of authoritarian leaders around the world who reject or downplay human rights in favor of an aggressive, take-no-prisoners form of nationalism
https://www.politico.eu/article/rodrigo-duterte-spokesman-fake-news-harry-roque/
September 24: [From "why do people love -or hate- Trump? Here Are The 20 Top Reasons "]
11. He’s nationalist rather than globalist.
World War II was a fight between nationalism and globalism. Did you know that the “N” in “Nazi” comes from the fact that Hitler’s party called themselves “National” Socialists? So if you’re on the side of nationalism v. globalism, you’re taking the side of Nazis and the losers in the last tragic World War.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/07/why-do-people-hate-trump/
October 24: What Is A Nationalist In The Age Of Trump?
... the president said Tuesday he was a "proud" nationalist, and he used it to contrast himself with previous presidents who negotiated trade deals, arms agreements and immigration laws — all of which involve the interests of other nations in addition to our own.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/24/660042653/what-is-a-nationalist-in-the-age-of-trump
November 11: Trump and dozens of his global counterparts gathered at the Arc de Triomphe in central Paris to mark 100 years since the nightmares of World War I ended, a conclusion brought about partly by the entry of the United States into the bitter, nationalism-fueled conflict.
But decades later, as living memories fade of the trenches and the poison gas, nationalism is on the rise. It's been fueled by Trump himself, who has proudly identified himself as a nationalist as he advances an "America First" agenda.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/11/politics/donald-trump-armistice-day-paris/index.html
November 11: Macron Decries Plague of Nationalism Right in Front of Donald “I’m a Nationalist, O.K.?” Trump
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/macron-decries-plague-of-nationalism-right-in-front-of-donald-im-a-nationalist-ok-trump
November 13: Trump refuses to acknowledge the fraught history of nationalism
President Trump took a peevish tone Tuesday as he revisited complaints about French President Emmanuel Macron, who used a weekend commemoration of the end of World War I to warn the president during his visit to Paris of the perils of the nationalist label he embraces and to suggest he has a lot to learn about history.
Macron called nationalism a dangerous trap and the opposite of patriotism while invoking the bloodiest episodes of 20th-century European history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-refuses-to-acknowledge-the-fraught-history-of-nationalism/2018/11/13/35fd0694-e76a-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d7525cb325c1
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