{"id":1872,"date":"2022-09-15T14:34:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/is-there-a-problem-with-conservative-nationalism\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T14:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:34:32","slug":"is-there-a-problem-with-conservative-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/is-there-a-problem-with-conservative-nationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Problem with Conservative Nationalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have advocated<\/a> an American conservatism that includes what I call enlightened nationalism<\/em>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

But this morning's mail brought notice of an article<\/a> that decouples conservatism from nationalism. Brion McClanahan writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

What is \u201cAmerican conservatism\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]
<\/span><\/p>\n

But I know one thing that American conservatism is not: nationalism.<\/p>\n

That hasn\u2019t stopped modern American \u201cconservatives\u201d for hopping on that train.<\/p>\n

Trump bought a ticket and rode it to success in 2016.
<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

In fact, most American \u201cconservatives\u201d have long identified with decentralization<\/em>, not nationalism.<\/p>\n

For example, John C. Calhoun described himself as a \u201cconservative,\u201d and because he was a \u201cconservative\u201d he was a \u201cState\u2019s rights man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Translation: that means he wasn\u2019t an American \u201cnationalist.\u201d He was a \u201cUnionist\u201d but never a \u201cnationalist\u201d because Calhoun understood that an American \u201cnation\u201d by a traditional definition never existed.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here, as elsewhere, much depends on the definition of terms. McClanahan does not inform us as to the "traditional definition" of nationalism.  I am all for decentralization, limited government, states' rights, and the Tenth Amendment. Why should anyone think that these are incompatible with enlightened nationalism as I defined it (link above) in broad agreement with Trump's America Firstism?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have advocated an American conservatism that includes what I call enlightened nationalism.   But this morning's mail brought notice of an article that decouples conservatism from nationalism. Brion McClanahan writes: What is \u201cAmerican conservatism\u201d? [. . .] But I know one thing that American conservatism is not: nationalism. That hasn\u2019t stopped modern American \u201cconservatives\u201d for … Continue reading “Is There a Problem with Conservative Nationalism?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-nationalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}