{"id":45735,"date":"2018-11-14T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45735"},"modified":"2018-11-12T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T21:40:07","slug":"the-un-foretold-rise-of-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/14\/the-un-foretold-rise-of-nationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The un-foretold rise of nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Raimondo<\/a> is clearly not an instinctive globalist:<\/p>\n

\u201cPatriotism is the opposite of nationalism\u201d bleated the poodle Macron at the Armistice celebration as he yipped and yapped and wagged his tail before the German conqueror of Europe. Meanwhile the Front Nationale<\/em> outpolled the \u201cmainstream\u201d \u201ccentrist\u201d parties in municipal elections for the first time and nationalist Italy is telling the European Union to stay out of its financial affairs.<\/p>\n

Despite the best efforts of the Davos crowd, the wave of nationalism that is rising over Europe has global resonance. Nationalism is what\u2019s driving the peace process and reunification effort on the Korean peninsula. Nationalism is what\u2019s defying the pretensions of Spain\u2019s chauvinist government and energizing the Catalonian rebels. Nationalism brought down the Soviet Union: it threatens the EU.<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t supposed to happen. The idea was that, in the wake of the Soviet collapse, the West would gradually and inevitably merge into what the theoreticians of European unity, citing Hegel, dubbed the \u201cuniversal homogenous state.\u201d And History \u2013 capitalize that H! \u2013 would quietly and unobtrusively come to an end. \u201cLiberal democracy,\u201d they claimed, was the \u201cfinal\u201d form of human organization: no ideological challenger was on the horizon nor was one likely to arise in this age of skepticism, secularism, and agnosticism. (I think it was one of Hegel\u2019s European followers, the French professor Alexandre Kojeve, who hypothesized that post-historical music would be like \u201cthe buzzing of bees,\u201d a prophecy that certainly sounds accurate to me.)<\/p>\n

What happened instead is that all the old crap was simply regurgitated by the same ruling classes who had lorded it over the rest of us since time immemorial. Rather than mellowing out into a kumbaya<\/em>-esque \u201cend of history\u201d-ish Eloi-land, the US and its allies redoubled their efforts to dominate the world, moving NATO steadily eastward, launching a decades-long invasion of the Middle East, and openly declaring their self-appointed role as enforcer of something called the \u201cliberal international order\u201d \u2013 a concept which no countries outside of Western Europe accept, and which the American people certainly never voted for.<\/p>\n

Trump is challenging all that, which is why the Establishment hates him: he threatens the intricate web of alliances, cronyist networks, tripwires, and gravy-trains that are so essential for the economic and political survival of our transnational elites. The supra-national architecture of the \u201cNew World Order,\u201d which once threatened to harden into a global super-state, is now under siege and being shaken to its foundations by the forces of disaggregation. Trump is the effect, not the cause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justin Raimondo is clearly not an instinctive globalist: \u201cPatriotism is the opposite of nationalism\u201d bleated the poodle Macron at the Armistice celebration as he yipped and yapped and wagged his tail before the German conqueror of Europe. Meanwhile the Front Nationale outpolled the \u201cmainstream\u201d \u201ccentrist\u201d parties in municipal elections for the first time and nationalist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,53,13],"tags":[337,576,1171,691],"class_list":["post-45735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-politics","category-usa","tag-eu","tag-philosophy","tag-populism","tag-unitednations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bTF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45738,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45735\/revisions\/45738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}