Full Idea
The patriot loves his place and its cheeses; …the nationalist has not particular affection for the place, but employs his obsessive sense of encirclement and grievance on behalf of acts of ethnic vengeance.
Gist of Idea
Patriots love their place, but nationalists have a paranoid ethnic hostility
Source
Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 2)
Book Reference
Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.100
A Reaction
'Vengeance' seems a bit strong. John Le Carré said nationalists are distinguished by the need to have enemies. Russia is particularly obsessed with 'encirclement'.