Sen. John McCain of Arizona set rhetorical fire to what he
called "half-baked, spurious nationalism" in a speech in
Philadelphia, reported Business Insider.
McCain was there to accept the National Constitution
Center's Liberty Medal, in recognition of his decades of service to the US.
Former Vice President Joe Biden presented McCain with the honor on Monday
evening.
"To refuse the obligations of international leadership,
and our duty to remain the last, best hope of Earth for the sake of some
half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find
scapegoats than solve problems," McCain said, as the audience erupted in a
raucous applause.
McCain said that kind of nationalism "is as unpatriotic
as an attachment to any other tired dogma that Americans consigned to the ash
heap of history."
"We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and
soil," McCain declared, referencing the racist ideologies of Nazi Germany
that have resurfaced in the midst of the current white-nationalist movement in
the US.
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