> All of these facts are grossly obvious if one’s emotions do not happen to be involved: but to the kind of person named in each case they are also intolerable,

> All of these facts are grossly obvious if one’s emotions do not happen to be involved: but to the kind of person named in each case they are also intolerable, and so they have to be denied, and false theories constructed upon their denial. Note that TFA clearly distinguishes between patriotism/partisanship, and what it labels as nationalism, which is (even —or maybe especially— in cases where the "nation" is not objectively definable?) so excessive as to cause the valence of an argument with respect to the "nation" to become more important than its actual plausibility.