The neonationalist shuffle

Neonationalists and neoconservative intellectuals don't quite run away from neo-Darwinist information regarding the biological origin of most of our social behavior, they do a kind of neonationalist shuffle and claim that nationalism is "forbiddingly difficult to define," as Samuel Goldman described it (Modern Age, Summer 2018). Then they step in with that shuffle and argue that a nation is not based on common descent but is "unified around cultural characteristics" of language, religion and shared history (Yoram Hazony). Is it the ghost of Hilter, intellectual cowardice, or a more sinister shell game to protect real or, ironically, ethnocentric motives?

The neoconservative's failed, for a time at least, when the new populism surprised the hell out if them and elected Trump---although Trump has since made them happy regarding his policies in the Middle-East.

Nations are not all that "forbiddingly difficult to define," although it is now virtually forbidden to define them. Throughout human history to this day human nature is kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection. That behavior bonded people together best for survival and reproductive success and from out of that natural foundation nation's formed.

Nations are naturally ethnocentric and even xenophobic and when they are not they tend to fall, and become feuding multicultural societies which eventually break back into an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. So why not head off those cycles and begin to establish, or reestablish, an ethnopluralism of ethnostates? An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could even be established, legally, in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states, protected by federalism. No radical revolution is necessary.

It may require a few constitutional amendments to give more power to the states to move toward an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, and it will not be easy at all, but it is far preferable to radical Marxism or Fascism, or the political dissimulations based on flawed definitions of nationalism and human nature which have brought us increasing civil disruptions, or even civil war, within unworkable multicultural (multi-racial/multi-ethnic) societies.