‘New Nationalism’ Amounts to Generic White-Identity Politics

The consensus that voters are revolting against economic conditions ignores other ways that they expect Trump to protect America.

In a fairly representative analysis, Politico’s Michael Hirsh explained the “new nationalism” as “a bitter populist rejection of the status quo that global elites have imposed on the international system since the Cold War ended, and which lower-income voters have decided — understandably — is unfair.”