[rayiner]

The four states pillars of the Constitution of my home country, Bangladesh, are “nationalism, socialism, democracy, and secularism.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujibism

It seems quite bizarre to me to not have a level of nationalism. Obviously the purpose of American government is ensuring the prosperity of Americans. What else could it be? And how else can you get 330 million people—who don’t share an ethnicity, history, first language, etc.—to consent to common governance without encouraging a healthy level of nationalism?

Fascism is nationalism taken to the level of justifying war on others because of self-declared superiority. That’s beyond ordinary nationalism.