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Support for populist nativism doesn’t track neatly with economic disadvantage.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
The Republicans, in thrall to former and perhaps future president Donald Trump, have embraced his illiberal nationalism, his protectionist zeal and his anti-migrant nativism.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
Johnson’s hatred of all non-Northern European peoples and his Pacific Northwest style of nativism—where an influential white supremacist movement in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho took root—went national.
—Devin E. Naar / Made By History, TIME, 9 July 2024
Over the last decade and a half, the widespread feeling that the United Kingdom was on its last legs was reflected in surging English nativism and Scottish, Welsh, and Irish separatism that in different ways threatened to pull the union apart.
—Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
The Republicans, in thrall to former and perhaps future president Donald Trump, have embraced his illiberal nationalism, his protectionist zeal and his anti-migrant nativism.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
Johnson’s hatred of all non-Northern European peoples and his Pacific Northwest style of nativism—where an influential white supremacist movement in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho took root—went national.
—Devin E. Naar / Made By History, TIME, 9 July 2024
Over the last decade and a half, the widespread feeling that the United Kingdom was on its last legs was reflected in surging English nativism and Scottish, Welsh, and Irish separatism that in different ways threatened to pull the union apart.
—Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
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“Nativism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nativism. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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