So, apparently Eric Cantor got obliterated in primary

[Darth Executor]

Among the major faulty assumptions in your logic, DE, are the Westphalian state and the existence of the ever-threatening enemy. With respect to the latter, where does the threat to the nation come from? This isn't a video game-- enemies don't spawn just for you to kill or just to threaten you. Why is there someone who will destroy your farm? Where did they come from? What are their motivations?

Opportunity cost. Sometimes it's more effective to just take someone's stuff than to grow or build your own. Everything else being equal, the side willing to kill and take someone else's stuff will win out over the side unwilling to do that. The same applies to groups that can cooperate in large numbers vs groups that can't.

[Epoetker]

Excellent rejoinders, let me just add a few more to the mix:

1. The beliefs of the sincere anti-nationalists are amply described here:

2. The only trouble with them is, of course, that nations and peoples are things that exist, and exact their revenge upon those who deny they exist. As a matter of fact, Nations and Peoples are fairly interchangeable in the discussion of the American State against the American people. But the same applies overseas:

Hexthorpe has a population of 3,300 and 500 Roma residents, most of whom are said to have arrived since January when entry rules to the UK were relaxed.We just want to be able to provide a happy and safe environment to pass onto our children and the future generations.

Another resident said she had been warned to take down England flags she had put up outside her house for the World Cup bid, for fear of reprisals from the Roma community.

It is the very local communities that you speak of that produce the most ardent nationalists, and those that are ashamed of their nation's flag and history will be ashamed of the people who fly it. Eric Cantor was ashamed of the most ardent Republicans in his party, and he unlike a great many in his party who managed to conceal it better(Lindsey Graham ) paid the price for it.

Tumors on the body politic will grow until recognized as foreign and excised. I'm here to assist in the early recognition and destruction.

3. "Nationalism, like family, divides the world into us and them."

I'd put it a little differently: Families, like nations, are for protecting, guiding, and raising the weak until they're ready to take their place in the wider community. No one who grew up in an intact nuclear family can believe in idiocies like human equality at home. So it's no surprise that liberals thus encourage single motherhood and bastardy in order to remove as many counterfactuals as possible from the lived experience of their followers. The nation eventually pays the price, but the destroyers get to have fun in some nice-looking government buildings before the judgment.

[Omniskeptical]

Eric Cantor gets slammed in an election. Oh, this is funny. And they said Rand Paul wouldn't last.