Chaim Amalek: “You can be White, or you can be Christian. Having just read the Gospel of Matthew, I do not see how you can be both.”
By ROSS DOUTHAT and REIHAN SALAM JULY 15, 2016
A politics that stresses national solidarity isn’t just the best way to keep Trump voters from tearing down the party’s tent. It’s also the most plausible path up from white identity politics to a one-nation, pan-ethnic conservatism.
A more nationalist politics is, in one sense, a more exclusive politics, as it is based on the premise that there is such a thing as an American national community, and that this community’s interests at times must be placed ahead of humanity as a whole. But nationalism can also be inclusive, insofar as it emphasizes the interests that Americans of all classes and ethnic backgrounds share.
