The specter of nationalism – Identity politics has always influenced elections. In 2024, it will pose a serious threat to liberalism—and to democracy itself.

I thought this article was interesting but not necessarily correct – there is a very long history of "liberalism" being used to advance nationalist agendas by couching a nationalist agenda in liberal terms.

Usually this takes the basic for of an argument for white supremacy on the basis that white people hold more "evolved" views, e.g. women's rights, liberal democracy, etc. For example recently I have seen a lot of newspapers claiming that muslims (which one could cynically interpret to mean anyone who looks like a muslim to a western observer) do not believe in women's rights (in contrast, supposedly, to the nice liberal west) and attempting to turn this into a justification to keep them out of nice, "civilised", Europe. Europeans do a lot of illiberal things, e.g. banning full-body swimwear and forcing women to strip naked in public in the name of "liberal tolerance".

I lived in Switzerland for a while and in all my correspondence with the immigration authorities, they would send me a document about "how to integrate into Switzerland". This document talked about things such as respecting the equal rights of men and women. I thought this was a bit ironic in a country where universal suffrage in all national elections was only extended in 1991 by the Supreme Court. Funnily enough they never sent around documents to the locals trying to help them overcome their (famed) xenophobia.