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There’s No Such Thing as Nationalism Without Ethnic Cleansing
What’s happening in the U.S. is the result of one party giving itself over to the goal of making America whiter
A funny thing happened at the launch of Turning Point UK: Candace Owens started talking about Adolf Hitler.
The launch was meant to be a triumphant beginning for the British offshoot of Turning Point USA, the notorious American megadonor-funded conservative nonprofit. It featured both Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, and Candace Owens, an African-American conservative who touts “blexit” as a means to convince black Americans to leave the Democratic Party. Owens answered a question about nationalism by offering a hypothetical in which Hitler stayed in Germany, made it great, and didn’t try to conquer Europe.
“I actually don’t have any problems at all with the word ‘nationalism,’” she said. (Though the speech was in December, the clip only resurfaced this month.) “The definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism.” Instead, Owens explained, the problem is that “whenever we say ‘nationalism,’ the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler. You know, he was a national socialist, but if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay…
