If you listen to the mainstream media, they would have you believe that Donald Trump is an abnormal, abhorrent aberration from the American political tradition.  But he is far from that.  In fact, Trump's basic political agenda — by all historical accounts and facts — puts him squarely within a storied tradition of American democratic and economic nationalism, a tradition that produced venerated heroes like Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson on one hand and Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, and Theodore Roosevelt on the other. A Strong Economy Is a Strong Nation The historian George Dangerfield wrote the eminent study of American nationalisms in The Awakening of American Nationalism.  He noted that American nationalism divides along two lines, one economic and one political (or what he called "democratic nationalism").  The first form of economic nationalism was first sketched by the great Alexander Hamilton,...(Read Full Article)