Writing for The Week, Damon Linker called the idea of neo-nationalism being racist "nonsense" and went on to say that "the tendency of progressives to describe it as nothing but 'racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia'—is the desire to delegitimize any particularistic attachment or form of solidarity, be it national, linguistic, religious, territorial, or ethnic."
Damon Linker 为The Week写作，称新民族主义是种族主义的“胡说八道”，并继续说“进步人士将其描述为'种族主义，仇视伊斯兰恐惧症和仇外心理'的倾向 - 是非法化的愿望任何特殊的依恋或团结形式，无论是民族，语言，宗教，领土还是种族。