Hello, Twitter! Bet you weren't expecting a holiday tweetstorm. No one expects the holiday tweetstorm; surprise is our chief weapon. But there's another reason I held this tweetstorm for today: it's a column on why America needs more symbolic patriotism.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/america-needs-more-patriotism/2018/07/03/aa16f54e-7f00-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html?utm_term=.5d988364b363 …
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We aren't an ethnostate. We're a creedal nation composed of many groups. We can't rely on culture and language and long centuries of shared history to do the heavy lifting of creating a shared sense of identity. We have to create it through ritual and reassertion of the creed.
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>We aren't an ethnostate
Absolutely not.
An ethnostate would probably include a phrase like "to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity" in its governing document and limit immigration to free white men Christian men of good character

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