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Jul. 19th, 2019 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeletsAs Samuel Johnson famously said, "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." It looks like national-patriotism is going to be the key conservative issue for the 2020 elections.
"Америка не резиновая". It's a good fit because Trump knows how to sell patriotism and he loves playing a zero-sum game.
The national conservatism we are developing is going to have some hard edges and provoke some clever counterattacks and dismissals.
An important virtue of the nation-state is that it is a constraint.
Resources are limited. Lasting achievement is possible only within a structure. My own favorite field, economics, is out of favor these days, but it has at least one profound truth, that of opportunity cost: Everything we do necessarily involves not doing something else.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-nationalist-awakening-11563574717
"Америка не резиновая". It's a good fit because Trump knows how to sell patriotism and he loves playing a zero-sum game.
