Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.Facts don’t matter for nationalists, they think themselves superior.For nationalists, every event can be a demonstrative example that his side is winning and the other side is losing.Nationalists see history as an endless rise and fall of power structures.Nationalists care more about the power and prestige of their group than their own individual success or merit.Nationalism always comes with a desire for absolute power over other groups of people.The group can be a nation but also some other form of a group, for example, Christian nationalism, or political catholicism is also cited as a form of a nationalistic movement.Nationalists are people who identify themselves with a particular group, raise it above every other, think it can’t do any wrong, and work tirelessly to advance its interests no matter the price. Nationalists group millions of people in two camps, good or bad, based on one trait. You can and probably should read this short, but a dense essay by George Orwell, but if you are not able to, here are a few notes on how Orwell sees the phenomenon of nationalism:
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