[Mariner]

Conservative Orthodoxy is dead.

Man is inherently tribal. Both Conservative AND Liberal Orthodoxy seek to deny this fact.

Nationalism is the natural state of man.

[central_va]

The truth is there is strength in unity and weakness in diversity.

[Jim Noble]

Postwar American conservatism not only failed (dismally) to preserve the nation, but by entangling the political entity known as the United States of America in overseas military demonstrations and through merging exclusively American economic structures with third world satrapies, the postwar American conservative movement has created an incredible situation in which we may fall to our enemies without a shot being fired.

Damn them to Hell.

[Ohioan]

You are correct in your views of nationalism & tribal instincts. You could not be more wrong about that being in conflict with conservatism.

Conservatism is now, and always has been about preserving traditional values; about a multi-generational continuum of a people. It varies from community to community, of course; because the cultural heritages differ. The one consistent aspect is that"globalism"--humanist pretensions and arrogance--are never consistent with conservatism. Had Nimrod's ridiculous tower at Babel actually reached heaven, it might be different.

In American terms, the fundament of our common Conservatism--that is the aspect that is general, not local--I would suggest, is captured in the Preamble to the Constitution. What really distinguished us from most foreign ideologies, is that ours was based on actual experience, not theory: America: Based On Experience & Reason