The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tell us that we are the best. A nationalist, "although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge," wrote [George] Orwell, tends to be "uninterested in what happens in the real world."
-- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, p. 113-114
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