Populist and nationalist rhetoric have surged to the center of US politics, but they didn't originate with Donald Trump. Sociologists Bart Bonikowski and Paul DiMaggio identify four types of American popular nationalism dating from the years prior to Trump's political rise -- and they don't fall on a neat continuum from more to less nationalist.
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