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Entry: Where The Grapes Of Wrath Are Stored Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/where_the_grapes_of_wrath_are_stored#25328 Post contents: President Bush's "National Security Strategy" 2002 begins with this remarkable sentence: "The great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom--and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise." This could serve as a working definition for what Mr. Larison is properly calling "nationalism." Nationalism almost always (at least in today's world) requires ideology, which has nothing to do with patriotism, or love of the patria. Mr. Larison's brilliant column, "Look Homeward," in the February 25 issue of The American Conservative, makes a similar case for the very great distinction between conservative institutions and Republican politics, which is a subset of this larger argument. Sadly, the last conservative Republican patriot to occupy the White House was probably Calvin Coolidge. Sent at: 2008 10 07