Towards a New Era of Nation-States

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Chapter III: Challenging the Declared Values of Universal Doctrines

Chapter III: Challenging the Declared Values of Universal Doctrines Why we need a nationalist ideology. Populist leaders like Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are right in zeroing in on the economic damage that the globalists have inflicted on the working and middle classes. The two charismatic leaders understand that economic issues are what matter the most to broad masses of potential voters. The populists have thus successfully drawn millions of discontented people into the ranks of their supporters. But the focus on economic issues, though important, cannot monopolize nationalist thinking. More than anything, we need an articulated world view with which we can engage internationalists on a much broader front. The reason so many well-meaning people fall for internationalist utopias is that the universalists have taken the trouble to elaborate plausible (though deeply flawed) concepts regarding the really broad questions of human existence, such as the purpose of life and what is good or evil and what constitutes progress or decline in human history. Armed with comprehensive explanations for all of the complexities and problems of life, secure in their belief that they have the right solutions and convinced of the

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