Truth Podcast - Vivek Ramaswamy - Listen to Season 3 Episode 2 of TRUTH | Hosted by Vivek Ramaswamy
Aired: 2024-05-09
Duration: 00:56

[00:00:00]  There's an N-word that you're not allowed to say anymore.
[00:00:02]  But I'm going to say it.
[00:00:04]  Nationalist.
[00:00:05]  It doesn't have to be a bad word.
[00:00:07]  We've got to distinguish between two different kinds of nationalism.
[00:00:10]  The first is ethno-nationalism.
[00:00:12]  That's the kind people usually think of.
[00:00:13]  And it's natural, because most nations' identities have been built around an ethnicity, or a religion, or a monarch.
[00:00:19]  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.
[00:00:28]  Distinct from that, though, is civic nationalism.
[00:00:31]  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.
[00:00:43]  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.
[00:00:54]  And so I don't think that that's the kind of nationalism we need to run from.