We Are Us and We Are Not Them. That's Not Bad.

i think it's fair to say that you're not fully american if you just ignore or reject the story and say it's irredeemably bad. A lot of self proclaimed nationalist guys do, we'll say, who are intellectually honest, is they will slip in phrases like ' benign nationalism' It has nothing to do with sherethnicity, language, religion, y a heritage,. whatever that word means, it's its shared story. And that shared story is what brings us together. Puten thinks it's shared language, shared religion, shared land. That's a very old world conception of national identity. That's illiberal. It's wrong. The kind of thing