I think instead of:

The rise of the civilizational state and of civilizational rather than national leaders is calling into question the concept of sovereign nation states.

Civilizationism reinforces the sovereign nation state. It is the opposite of Globalism or it supports Hegemonic Globalism as opposed to Global Equity.

Civilizationism (Nationalism) supports a Sovereign Nation State with a dominate cultural identity that is often Race or Religion based. It may accept a melting pot of races and religions as long as it does not change the dominate culture.

Civilizationism is really just a way of dividing the spoils of past international conflicts. This is Russia in decline but trying to hold on to as much as possible, China ascendant with greater Hegemony and the U.S. just marking time. The China model is prime for the 21st century and modern digital censorship and surveillance.

The U.S. melting pot is threating to change the dominate culture and as such the U.S. is becoming more isolationist and more strongly Civilizationist (Nationalistic). The U.S. has been often isolationist and is predispositioned to isolationism. The U.S. is more self sufficient than any country on the planet or could be if we were not so greedy as to have cheap products produced in third world sweatshops.

We are way past needing those stinking immigrants. Yeah, we like them and like to abuse them and how they reduce our cost of living but we don’t need them.

With Climate Change driven immigration the idea of strong borders will gain more traction. Our standard of living will depend on us being able to discriminate against those who are disadvantaged by being born in or from shit hole country.

You are probably getting a racist vibe from this rant but understand it is more classist than racists. I don’t care what races we are excluding as long as we are excluding the tired and poor huddled masses. If everyone on the planet lived the American Lifestyle the planet would be doomed. We probably need to limit the planetary middle class to just a couple billion people. We might have already busted that limit.

TEK