I wish I had more time to give you a deeper and more comprehensive reply. But speaking about liberal nationalis. Since you promote open borders/free migration, I recommend you to follow and read Clara Sandelind. She is one of my favorite researchers regarding liberalism, migration and nationalism. One of her key points are explanations why liberal nationalists are against free migration and universalism/cosmopolitanism
I think the nationalism question is best answered backwards. Try to imagine a state which has NO shared national feeling holding it together. Assuming that state doesn’t immediately collapse into smaller units which DO have national feeling, how does it have to be governed? And how is that different from how a state WITH such shared national feeling can be governed?
Not all nation states are democracies. But I insist that no non-nation states can be democracies. Why? Because the majoritarian principle requires that the people who lose an election regard the people who win an election as their fellow countrymen (and women), and therefore as people they might persuade to vote differently next time.
I wish I had more time to give you a deeper and more comprehensive reply. But speaking about liberal nationalis. Since you promote open borders/free migration, I recommend you to follow and read Clara Sandelind. She is one of my favorite researchers regarding liberalism, migration and nationalism. One of her key points are explanations why liberal nationalists are against free migration and universalism/cosmopolitanism
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ChrRm0sAAAAJ&hl=en
boundedsolidarity.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/does-liberalism-need-nationalism/?fbclid=IwAR3VL1pKpucvR0ZQxd75Xu4cqbiV76vfsk7uM5ui8kwF5sMq2YuvQieJpsU
I think the nationalism question is best answered backwards. Try to imagine a state which has NO shared national feeling holding it together. Assuming that state doesn’t immediately collapse into smaller units which DO have national feeling, how does it have to be governed? And how is that different from how a state WITH such shared national feeling can be governed?
Not all nation states are democracies. But I insist that no non-nation states can be democracies. Why? Because the majoritarian principle requires that the people who lose an election regard the people who win an election as their fellow countrymen (and women), and therefore as people they might persuade to vote differently next time.
Frisking shoddy scholarship from CIS on one day, shoddy scholarship on Nationalism on another.. not all heroes wear capes :)
The Orwell definition is a great one and should be widely distributed....or read....out there for folks to engage with....
American nationalism would be that Delacroix painting but with Sydney Sweeney