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Why We Need Inclusive Nationalism

Author John Halpin explains why President Donald Trump's brand of reactionary and exclusionary nationalism is dangerous.

America faces enormous challenges at home and abroad that our political system is ill-prepared to handle. Mired in compounding health, economic, and social crises arising from the coronavirus pandemic—on top of years of broken politics, widening inequality, and growing threats to liberal values around the world—our nation needs a common vision for renewal that speaks to all Americans. We need an inclusive American nationalism, in opposition to Donald Trump’s reactionary and exclusionary nationalism. We need a new framework for economic and social reform that takes seriously our constitutional promise to build “a more perfect Union” and to secure the rights, liberties, and opportunity of all people post-COVID

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Authors

John Halpin

Former Senior Fellow; Co-Director, Politics and Elections