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Nationalism is not necessarily a bad thing

By Michael Barone
Published August 10, 2016 10:54pm ET
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Nationalism is not necessarily a bad thing
An intelligent nationalist can respect the strengths of other nationalisms, while preferring his own. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) | Matt Dunham

Google “Donald Trump” and “nationalism” and you’ll get 1,990,000 results, the large percentage of which are, to judge from the top hits, negative. “Nationalism” is deemed to be bad stuff, maybe even akin to Nazism.

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