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By tribalism vs nationalism, do you mean social groups vs national groups?
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I mean that all our social problems seem to vanish whenever there's a rally-round-the-flag. Almost as though putting your country first was healthy for one's relationship with their countrymen. It's been true in America for quite a while, I mean, so long as one ignores the Civil War......

...but historically, the rise of nationalism solved all sorts of tribal problems in Europe. Not all of them, obviously, but it was a major advance. Now with the EU in charge, nationalism has been bleeding to death and -- well gosh, it's almost like this has had deadly consequences.