ELITES DON’T LIKE IT BECAUSE IT IMPLIES ACCOUNTABILITY: Michael Barone: Nationalism Is Not Necessarily A Bad Thing. “An elite globalist may scoff at the arbitrariness of national borders and style himself ‘a citizen of the world,’ as President Obama described himself before a massive crowd in Berlin in 2008. But most people don’t think of themselves that way. Nation-states inspire loyalties in a way the United Nations or the European Union have failed to do.”