Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n
A<\/span>lmost everything French president Emmanuel Macron has said recently on the topic of foreign affairs, the United States, and nationalism and patriotism is silly. He implicitly rebukes Donald Trump for praising the idea of nationalism as a creed in which citizens of sovereign nations expect their leaders to put the interests of their fellow citizens first and those of other nations second. And while critiquing nationalism, Macron nonetheless talks and acts as though he is an insecure French chauvinist of the first order.<\/p>\n The French president suffers from the usual dreams of some sort of European \u201cempire\u201d \u2014 Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler . . . Brussels? He probably envisions a new Rome steered by French cultural elites whose wisdom, style, and sophistication would substitute for polluting tanks and bombers, and who would play Greece\u2019s robed philosophers to Europe\u2019s Roman legions: \u201cIt\u2019s about Europe having to become a kind of empire, as China is. And how the U.S. is.\u201d<\/p>\n But aside from the fact that the immigration-wary eastern and financially strapped southern Europeans are increasingly skeptical of northern European imperial ecumenicalism, can Macron cite any \u201cempire\u201d in the past \u2014 Persian, Roman, Ottoman, British \u2014 that was not first and foremost \u201cnationalist\u201d?<\/p>\n Read the full article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Almost everything French president Emmanuel Macron has said recently on the topic of foreign affairs, the United States, and nationalism and patriotism is silly. He implicitly rebukes Donald Trump for praising the idea of nationalism as a creed in which citizens of sovereign nations expect their leaders to put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1189],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2ZZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5590,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/from-nationalism-to-fascism-to-terror\/","url_meta":{"origin":11531,"position":0},"title":"From Nationalism to Fascism to Terror","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 4, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Parallels between Germany and the Arab World by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers On occasion, one finds a historical pattern that provides a paradigm useful for interpreting contemporary world events.\u00a0 One such paradigm is the almost eerie parallel between Germany\u2019s history \u2014 its progress from Nationalism to Fascism and ultimately Terror\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Raymond Ibrahim"","block_context":{"text":"Raymond Ibrahim","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/our-contributors\/raymond-ibrahim\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12139,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/american-citizenship-is-eroding\/","url_meta":{"origin":11531,"position":1},"title":"American citizenship is eroding","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Highland County Press Today, many condemn the idea of nationalism by connecting it to race hatred (e.g., white nationalism). 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