I argue that the rise of nationalism in Europe is a good thing.
The first reason for this is its historical inevitability. The different populations in different regions didn’t happen by accident. Every historical people has been relatively homogeneous due to killing off or driving away all competition for their territory. Empires rise and fall, but nations endure.
The second reason is the possibility of social harmony. Homogeneous populations with the same language and culture build trust and safety.
Every group restricts its membership by a set of rules. If there are no ways to distinguish oneself from others, there is no group. Human is a social creature and needs groups to be part of.
Nations do have the right to exist. Separating them from each other with well defined and maintained borders ensures just that.
A nation is an extended family and the nation does not only share territory and culture but also a genetic cluster. Just like one should care who one’s brothers or sisters marry, one should care whom the nation marries. If their future is wed to a foreign population without their approval, that’s rape on national level.
Nations are what their populations look like. Alter the population and you alter the nation, bit by bit. If one sees value in the nation’s existence, one has to consider any and all immigration an evil.
One needs also think about what are the possible alternatives to nationalism.
By far the strongest reason to advocate for nationalism is that it is not globalism nor is it multiculturalism. Multi-culturalism is an insane goal, as it is simply a transition state from one homogeneous culture to another by way of cultural conflict.
Multi-culturalism also foments unnecessary hostility between ethnicities.
One world government would be just as disastrous as various attempts at communist governments were, simply on a more massive scale and with absolutely no brakes to the cruelty and evil exhibited by the representatives of the state who aren’t hindered by even a sense that they’re dealing with their own anymore. To a globalist a man is mere abstraction and something to profit from or discard at will. The more powerful the state, the worse it tends to be, because it doesn’t need to fear repercussions.
Even in multicultural areas that don’t encounter a massive increase in criminality and poverty, the sense of community and trust is eroded – even between the native populace. That disrupts social harmony and efficiency and the fruit built for centuries becomes undone in just a couple of decades.
Allowing welfare for immigrants means that they become a parasitic class, which leads to them breeding on the expense of the native population who ends up having less kids due to having no money to support them. Immigration is not natives+foreigners, it’s less natives+foreigners.
One would have to be in absolute denial of historical and biological facts, along with current events showing the total disaster that has been the multi-cult experiment throughout the West, to oppose nationalism.