Alan Elrod is the president & CEO of the Pulaski Institution, an Arkansas-based think tank. He is also a columnist at Arc Digital and an adjunct instructor at Arkansas State University-Beebe.
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Caitlin and Trent ask Alan Elrod, President and CEO of the Pulaski Institution, about what nationalism is and what kinds of nationalism are at play today. We discuss how white nationalist and Christian nationalist proponents justify it, and how U.S. progressives can participate in a national identity that celebrates
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