In the words of the late, great John le Carre, "Nationalism is quite different than patriotism. For Nationalism you need enemies." I couldn't help but think of this quote from an interview le Carre gave -- about a year before his death -- throughout Bill and Tim's conversation on the pod yesterday. It is utterly terrifying, especially wh…
In the words of the late, great John le Carre, "Nationalism is quite different than patriotism. For Nationalism you need enemies." I couldn't help but think of this quote from an interview le Carre gave -- about a year before his death -- throughout Bill and Tim's conversation on the pod yesterday. It is utterly terrifying, especially when you see what happened last week with Trump's 180 on TikTok: Meta, an American company, and Zuckerberg, an American, are supposed to be viewed as being more dangerous than TikTok, a company with deep ties to the CCP. I understand there to be more nuance there than simply Nationalism vs. Patriotism; however, those nuances are too inside baseball for most voters, and Trump understands this, which makes his Nationalist tendencies to be all the more dangerous.
In the words of the late, great John le Carre, "Nationalism is quite different than patriotism. For Nationalism you need enemies." I couldn't help but think of this quote from an interview le Carre gave -- about a year before his death -- throughout Bill and Tim's conversation on the pod yesterday. It is utterly terrifying, especially when you see what happened last week with Trump's 180 on TikTok: Meta, an American company, and Zuckerberg, an American, are supposed to be viewed as being more dangerous than TikTok, a company with deep ties to the CCP. I understand there to be more nuance there than simply Nationalism vs. Patriotism; however, those nuances are too inside baseball for most voters, and Trump understands this, which makes his Nationalist tendencies to be all the more dangerous.