A nationalist, like Trump, might be someone who believes a particular one man is a better representative of national interests than another.... say, like Trump might say.... a Hillary or Obama who is more focused on globalism agenda visions than the interests of our particular citizenry.
Here, Rabbi Rachel Barenblat describes two ways of describing "globalism". One is it's use as a very well known anti-Semitic trope. And one is its use in a manner that holds out hope for a more enlightened humanity. I very much like that latter use of the term. But then I remain idealistic and naive. I actually believe in humanity's higher angels, even when times are darkest.
https://forward.com/scribe/412627/yes-ranting-against-globalism-is-anti-semitic/
Of course, the monster who saw fit to slaughter members of a Jewish congregation a few days ago does not see the world as I do. And even though it would be hard to describe Donald Trump as anti-Semitic, still, the rhetoric he uses, playing to hatred and anger as the consummate demagogue he is, and the rhetoric used by some members of the Republican Party, are clearly understood by those for whom anger and hatred embolden in these dark days:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...403b32-daec-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html
After a “lone wolf” Islamist militant attack, the media invariably ask: What inspired him to kill? Usually the answer is found in Islamist militant propaganda. We need to ask the same question about right-wing terrorism. What inspired Cesar Sayoc to allegedly send
mail bombs to prominent liberals? What inspired
Robert Bowers to allegedly gun down 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue? What inspired Gregory Bush to allegedly kill two African Americans in Jeffersontown, Ky., after failing to enter a predominantly black church?
To ask these questions in no way obviates the perpetrators’ ultimate responsibility for the evil that they do. But terrorists do not operate in a vacuum. So who created the environment in which
right-wing terrorism has become far more commonplace — and, since 9/11,
far more deadly — than Islamist terrorism in America?
President Trump — by championing “nationalism,” denouncing “globalists” such as Jewish financier George Soros, vilifying immigrants as “
snakes” and “
animals,” fearmongering about a refugee caravan and defending white supremacists as “fine people” — bears a substantial share of the blame.
Some of his Republican followers are even more extreme. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.)
brought a Holocaust denier to the State of the Union and has blamed Soros for financing a Central American immigrant caravan. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)
gave an interview to a far-right Austrian website in which he endorsed the white-supremacist claim that white nations are committing “slow-motion cultural suicide” by allowing in immigrants of color.
Even GOP leaders are joining in. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
posted and then deleted a tweet accusing Soros, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer of buying the election. (Soros and Bloomberg are Jewish; Steyer is an
Episcopalian whose father was Jewish.) Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
blamed Soros for funding protestsagainst then-Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Where do these politicians get these noxious ideas? From a right-wing media industrial machine that includes Fox News, Breitbart, Infowars, Newsmax, the Daily Caller, Gateway Pundit and many other outlets. It was Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business Network who
asked Grassley if Soros was behind the Kavanaugh protests — and after Grassley endorsed the charge, Trump gave it his imprimatur. The Wall Street Journal, in turn, ran an
op-edendorsing this calumny. Last week, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs interviewed Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch, who
claimed that the Central American caravan was directed by the “Soros-occupied State Department,” echoing neo-Nazi propaganda about a “Zionist-occupied government.” (Fox Business has since
apologized.)