Unfortunately, however, this process of national cohesion can also be reactivated in existing national populations when these feel threatened or shamed—contemporary examples of which we see not only in European right populism and American Trumpism, but also in countries like Russia, Turkey, Brazil and India. Conservatism tends to have a perpetual flirt with nationalism, saying stuff like “we have to learn to stand up for our values”. I say “unfortunately” because nationalism as a reactionary movement does not really offer any credible paths to creating a regulated and functional transnational
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