This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Friday, January 13th,

2023. I'm Caleb Brown.

Nationalism is a bit of a half-baked notion.

Governments, after all, can be very, very wrong and supporting your

government right or wrong that nationalist impulse broadly adopted can lead large groups

of people down some very dark paths.

Cato's Alex Narasta details a recent debate on the subject of nationalism and why he's against

it.

When people who fancy themselves nationalists, when people who want us to be nationalist to to wave the flag in a big way

what how do they characterize nationalism what is their idealized vision of it give us the the good

Picture that they want us to see a lot of nationalists such as Rich Lowry at National Review

writes that nationalism is an ideology that brings Americans together,

that it is a feeling of national belonging based on culture, based on

language, based on history, that prompts us to act collectively for the benefit of the greater good, for the

benefit of the state, and for the benefit of American society and that policies that seek to bring us together

such as more homogeneous enhancing policies regarding immigration, regarding language,

regarding culture should be pushed by the government

in order to try to create this model, ideal,

cohesive society that they believe will make us a richer

country and a better country a more sort of American country.

Where do nationalists tend to come down on things like immigration?

Because people who tend to oppose immigration often point to, well, this will be a cultural disruption and of course the United States has had

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