How Civic Nationalists Think

... All societies start out racially, culturally, and religiously homogeneous. Civic nationalism is not even conceivable until that homogeneity begins to break down and, along with it, social trust, cooperation, and fellow feeling. Civic nationalism is the idea that everyone and anyone can be American, English, French, Swedish, or what have you, so long as he professes the liberal creed of pluralism, tolerance, and individualism. This is supposed to hold together the fragments of a once unified society...

American civic nationalists want to reverse cause and effect, claiming that the American nation is more or less a construct of the US Constitution. Dr. Johnson points out, however, that the truth is just the reverse: "The Constitution - like the various declarations of independence, state constitutions, and the articles of confederation before it - was a construct of the American people, an experiment in self-government." And he notes that "the US Constitution is a document suffused with the character of its Anglo-Protestant creators."...

For the civic nationalist, the Constitution and its ideas are what are essential to the nation... America would still be America, they claim, even if its founding stock were entirely replaced by non-white foreigners - so long as they paid lip service to the Constitution...

Dr. Kaufmann and the other civic nationalist think ideas and cultural forms are free-floating abstractions that may be embodied by (or imposed on) any people. This is exactly what we would expect of the folks who brought us Operation Iraqi Freedom. It does not seem to have occurred to them that cultures are an expression of specific, genetically distinct peoples living in unique historical, geographical, and climatic conditions. Culture evolves as a people evolves.

Liberal democracy actually amounts to minority rule - not a particular racial or ethnic minority but the group that presents itself as championing such minorities: the affluent, university-educated liberal elite. This minority is hostile to the majority. It enacts globalist policies that are economically devastating to the white middle and working classes, and that destroy their communities with "diversity."..

The behavior of the elites during the COVID-19 pandemic exposed their contempt for ordinary people, and their overestimation of the people’s willingness to obey and submit.)...

Nations are "extended families" rooted in blood, shared culture, and shared language. Like the family, the nation offers unconditional belonging. The basis for this belonging, however, is love of one’s own. We love other members of our nation because they are like us...

America is Not a Creedal Nation