Why We Should Embrace President Trump’s Nationalism

Why We Should Embrace President Trump’s Nationalism
Incumbent Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele (L) speaks during a session of the RNC Winter Meeting January 14, 2011 in National Harbor, Maryland. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Carol M. Swain
Updated:
Commentary
Last week, Michael Steele, the former Republican National Committee chairman, shocked a number of Americans, including myself, by equating President Donald Trump’s silence about the case of Christopher Hasson—a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant charged with planning a mass terror attack against leftist Democrats—as hidden sympathy for white nationalism.
Carol M. Swain
Carol M. Swain
Author
Dr. Carol Swain, an award-winning political scientist and former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the co-author of "Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House."
Related Topics