Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not attempt to dissuade her sons from active involvement in the uprising. Opening a photo album, she stares at the face of the Khaled she remembers as a "very quiet boy, obedient and very sensitive." In the next breath she proudly praises him as a "Palestinian nationalist...
Which is why the most successful left-of-center parties are precisely those that have seized the nationalist issue themselves. Take the French Socialists. There is no great debate in France about its place in the world. The Socialists learned decades ago to accept the Gaullist vision of French grandeur, with all the trappings, military (e.g., the force de frappe) and geopolitical (e.g., the intervention in Chad). Not surprisingly, the Socialists keep winning. This year Francois Mitterrand became the first President of the Fifth Republic to win re-election...
...Spain, too, the Socialists have not permitted the right to corner the nationalist market. Having taken Spain into the Economic Community, Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez has demonstrated that the adept use of anti- Americanism (e.g., kicking a U.S. air wing out of Spain) is an excellent way to shore up nationalist credentials and retain popularity...
Parties of the left that plausibly present themselves as nationalist parties can survive, even flourish. Those that cannot, flounder. American Democrats began absorbing that lesson four years ago. Having sought vainly for some new, galvanizing social vision in the New Deal-Fair Deal-New Frontier tradition, and having found that mere nostalgic invocation of the past does not work, they figured they had better retake the flag...
After Dukakis, the Democrats have only two avenues to recovery. They can present a rethought social-democratic vision that challenges the nationalist party by presenting an alternative to it. Or they can try to seize the nationalist issue themselves. Failing that, they have one hope left. They can pray for a depression...