Homegrown Nationalism Beats Imports

The article argues U.S. nationalist movements succeed when rooted in the founding Anglo‑Protestant ethnocultural core (e.g., the Second Klan’s mass membership and elite backing) and fail when branded as foreign transplants (e.g., the German‑American Bund’s small, first‑/second‑generation base and outsider sympathies). The mechanism is fit with native identity and institutions rather than ideological similarity on paper. — This helps forecast which modern nationalist brands will scale or stall and cautions against copy‑pasting foreign ideologies into different ethnocultural contexts.