CNN’s Toobin Defends Trump on ‘Nationalist’ Uproar: ‘He Has a Legitimate Argument’

‘I don’t think there is anything wrong with the term nationalism’

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TOOBIN: “I’ve got to say, I bow to no one. I’ve talked about Donald Trump’s racism from day one. Starting with his lies about where Barack Obama was born. But I don’t think there is anything wrong with the term nationalism. And I would hate to see it co opted entirely by these reactionary forces. Theodore Roosevelt’s program was called the new nationalism. The struggle in American foreign policy between internationalists and isolationists, sometimes called nationalists, rather than isolationists. That’s a real thing in this country. And I don’t think nationalism is — is just a code word for white people. Look, he does so much actual racism, I think we should criticize him for the actual racism, rather than what I think is an unfair criticism for this —”

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