Donald Trump as a George Orwell ‘nationalist’

Trump has clearly shown whose side he is on: the powerful and the unethical, domestically; and the aggressors, internationally. We now know who he is. It is for the American people to decide who they are.
Donald Trump and his hardcore MAGA followers fit George Orwell's profile of 'nationalists' to a T. Their opinions cease to be formed based on objective facts or reasoned arguments, and reality is what the leader tells them it is, writes Michael Hatfield.

In May 1945, just as the Second World War in Europe was coming to an end, British author George Orwell wrote the essay, “Notes on Nationalism.” It distinguished between two approaches to political partisanship: “patriotism” and “nationalism.” 

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