Defending Nationalism

  • 2011-02-10
  • By Janis Berzins
The United States’ foreign policy is based on the idea of what is called ‘American Exceptionalism.’ In reflection, this is the idea that this country is qualitatively different from other nations, as observed by Alexis de Tocqueville. Based on this presupposition, a specific ideology was established, based on the ideas of liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism (here in the sense of the U.S. populist movement in which farmers and other workers established their anti-trust agenda a little more than 100 years ago), and laissez-faire. This idea is closely tied to ...
 
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