Trump Is Turning America Into the ‘Shithole Country’ He Fears
The president’s mindless nationalism has come to this: Americans are not welcome in Europe or Mexico.
by Anne Applebaum
Jul 03, 2020
3 minutes
There is a lot of learned material written about nationalism—scholarly books and papers, histories of it, theories of it—but most of us understand that nationalism, at its heart, at its very deepest roots, is about a feeling of superiority: We are better than you. Our country is better than your country. Or even—and apologies, but this is the precise language deployed by the president of the United States: Your country is a shithole country. Ours isn’t.
In this sense, nationalism is not patriotism, which is the desire to work on behalf of your fellow citizens, to defend
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