BY PORTFOLIO ARMOR
SATURDAY, JUL 08, 2023 – 9:03
Scene from the riots in France.
What Came Before Nationalism
France’s worst riots since at least 2005 generated a lot of discussion about the difference between citizenship and nationality, in the ethnic sense, as the rioters were primarily of North African ancestry. Our friend Eugyppius, the pseudonymous German academic who became prominent with his criticism of COVID tyranny, made an important point though: it took a lot of work to make the various regional ethnicities that comprised what is now France to all think of themselves as French rather than as Normans, Bretons, etc.; the same is true of European states such as Germany and Italy.
Globalists have turned against nationalism, but they forget why nationalism was preferable to what it replaced, and they may come to regret when it’s gone.
Eugyppius elaborated on this tension in a piece earlier this week, which he has graciously allowed me to share in full below. Before we get to that, a quick top names performance update.