It looks like Trump is setting the mood for the 1T.

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(12-03-2016, 04:00 PM)FLBones Wrote: Was there a trend towards nationalism here in the US in the late 1930s? I know there was a trend towards isolationism up until the attack of Pearl Harbor, which btw will be 75 years this month. European nations underwent intense nationalism in their last 4T but did it persist through their 1Ts?

Depends upon what you mean by Nationalism and how you look at it. Europe in the 1T was dominated by a democratic nationalism as the secure basis of the welfare nation state. All the conservative lifestyle stability of the United States in the 50's was present in Europe too. For instance, politically, there was much talk of "the end of ideology" since everyone from left to right thought essentially the same about democracy, society and where it ought to be headed. The foremost political philosopher of the day was Isaiah Berlin and his idea of "negative liberty", securing fairness, impartiality and objectivity to the political and social process. Calm waters.

Nevertheless, one could perhaps say that the war and the treatment of the Jews by National Socialism had broken the back of nationalism and conservatism in a moral sense. Spiritually, the 1T was defended by a technocratic, scientific-behavioralist, pragmatist rationality, not by aesthetics or deep feelings of connection through blood and soil. So when the 2T started steamrolling across Europe, there was no effective defense against it as the young Noble Savage radicals could always point to the recent past in order to discredit and pathologize the existing social order.