You can't defeat nationalism *without* patriotism. People have a need to belong. Either the left and liberals have something to say about that, or they leave it to more sinister political forces.

Orwell wrote about this convincingly during the war. For some inexplicable reason people fail to grasp it. Now we're having to learn it all over again.

Many replies to this stress that you can't oppose Tories by doing the same thing as them. The entire point is that you express belonging without doing the same thing as them.

It's equivalent to saying that you don't like a song, so all music must be shit.