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    INDIA’S NEW NATIONALISM, AND OURS

    May 22, 2020 5 minutes
    SHIKHA DALMIA

    PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S “America First” agenda has reignited conservatives’ love affair with nationalism, with National Review’s Rich Lowry (a onetime NeverTrumper) and Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony publishing books in the last few years arguing that America needs a nationalist revival to rebuild fraying social cohesion.

    The truth is the opposite: Cultural nationalism will dissolve the glue that binds Americans—namely, their commitment to the founding principles of equality, individual rights, and human dignity.

    When I came to America 30 years ago, it was obvious to me—as it was to French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville 200 years earlier—that Americans not only love but also their country. American patriotism, Tocqueville observed, is very different from the Old World variety that regarded the nation as the father and citizens

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