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There is good reason to be worried about this strange moment in French history.

The use of the term "far right" is a clever political ploy used to delegitimize certain political options, policies, or persons.

Protests that turned France into a battlefield last week inevitably brought up the issue of immigration, albeit in different contexts and concerns. Türkiye also received its share of this agenda. An event of this magnitude contains dimensions that require everyone to learn a certain lesson. In fact, such incidents provide an opportunity for individuals to recognize and rectify their own mistakes, and to get their own affairs in order. However, more often than not, these opportunities are wasted

By the end of World War Two, nationalism had been thoroughly discredited. Critics charged that national self-interest had prevented democratic governments from cooperating to end the Great Depression, and that nationalist passions had led not just to war, but also to some of the worst crimes groups of human beings had ever perpetrated on others. In this defense of nationalism the renowned scholar of politics William Galston presents twelve arguments in defense of the importance of national identity.

Those using the word should at least know what it means.