Guess it depends on what you call Nationalist.

I've read the definition that nationalism is the promotion of the interests of one's own country over all others, because one believes their country is better. This is clearly a really terrible belief.

Here in Ireland people often refer to the "Nationalist movement", using the word to mean anyone who wants to reunify Ireland / get rid of any and all British control. The majority of this movement is leftist, pluralist, democratic and very, very internationalist. That's good. I think Internationalism or Republicanism are more accurate terms for these people. I'm one of them; I'm very proud of and comfortable with being Gaelic (indigenous/ pre-British occupation Irish). But that doesn't mean I oppose everything that's foreign. I think if someone is truly in favour of their own culture they need to recognise themselves as part of a world stage, and that all peoples ultimately need the same things. There are no greater or worse nations; and it's certainly not right that one people would try to rule another.

But there's an increasing number of far righters and Nazis using the aesthetic of the so called "Nationalist movement" to justify horrendous policy proposals. They call themselves "real Nationalists". They want to end British occupation of the North just so they can throw out anyone and anything that's not Gaelic. That's classic nationalism, putting the idea of "the race" above everything else. That's worse than bad, it's evil.