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How nationalism went international

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Nationalism has gone international.

You can see it in the news that three months before the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump, Jr., took a meeting with an emissary of two wealthy Arab princes and "an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation." Of course, this raises lots of intriguing and narrow questions: Was the alleged meeting, supposedly orchestrated by Erik Prince, former head of the private security contractor Blackwater (and brother of Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos), somehow connected to contacts between affiliates of the Trump campaign and representatives of the Russian government? Or was this a wholly separate effort at soliciting illegal foreign election assistance? Those are questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of investigators will surely be seeking to answer.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.