Modi’s India Points to Perils of White Nationalism in U.S. and U.K.
Stoking social antagonisms in irrevocably diverse societies is a recipe for endless turmoil.
The original culture warriors.
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The recent gubernatorial election in Virginia and the British government’s campaign against “woke” cultural institutions provide the latest evidence that White nationalism is becoming the unabashedly central ideology of the traditional parties of the right on both sides of the Atlantic.
Confoundingly at a time of widespread economic distress, Republicans in the United States and the Conservatives in the United Kingdom are united by their invocations of national glory, resolves to recover it, antipathy to immigrants, and targeting of institutions deemed insufficiently patriotic or overly indulgent of sexual, ethnic and racial minorities.