May 9, 2024 - Truth Podcast - Vivek Ramaswamy
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| There's an N-word that you're not allowed to say anymore. | |
| But I'm going to say it. | |
| Nationalist. | |
| It doesn't have to be a bad word. | |
| We've got to distinguish between two different kinds of nationalism. | |
| The first is ethno-nationalism. | |
| That's the kind people usually think of. | |
| And it's natural, because most nations' identities have been built around an ethnicity, or a religion, or a monarch. | |
| And in that case, the track record of history hasn't been great for what that type of nationalism produces, either for a country or for its neighbors. | |
| Distinct from that, though, is civic nationalism. | |
| And that's the kind of nationalism that I think is relevant in the United States of America because our country is defined not based on an ethnicity, not based on a language or a monarch or cuisine or religion, for that matter. | |
| Our country is defined on the basis of a civic set of ideals that brought together a divided polyglot and, yes, religiously diverse group of people 250 years ago. | |
| And so I don't think that that's the kind of nationalism we need to run from. |
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