Article Quote: “‘Oh, they’re all disgusting; they’re all racist. Look at them in their MAGA hats, look at them with their white vans and their flags, look at them with their perspectives, with their unearned views and their belches and their beer,’” Brand elaborated. “It’s a kind of legitimization of a loathing of the people that are most connected to the nation, people that, generally speaking, a couple of generations ago were asked to sacrifice the lives of their sons … for the for the idea of nation — an idea that they’re now being told doesn’t exist”
I SAY AGAIN: "a couple of generations ago were asked to sacrifice the lives of their sons … for the for the idea of nation — an idea that they’re now being told doesn’t exist”
The takeaway: "In reality, leftists consider “nationalism” barbaric and atavistic, an obsession of people too narrow-minded and unevolved to crave citizen-of-the-world status. The latter’s provincial morality damns them to oh-so-tedious national monogamy, whereas leftists are globe-trotting philanderers of nations. (Of course, the pseudo-elites never put their “asylum seekers” in their neighborhoods — they put them in working-class ones.)"
"They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.’"