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>I actually have mixed feelings towards nationalism. Does it make sense from a logical point of view? No but neither do many human behaviors.
I believe that there can be no genuine conflict between the good and the rational. If something is good, it's also rational. If it's truly and fully rational, then it must be good. This notion that the realm of is and ought are strictly divided is relatively recent. David Hume didn't so much discover as invent it, although that's not strictly true. Rather, Hume ruminated on a Zeitgeist that he was captured in.
I can recommend Ethica Thomistica and After Virtue on this topic, although take much of the latter with a grain of salt, if you decide to read it.
Now, as for nationalism itself, I also don't believe it's completely bad, just as every political ideology. Socialism, for example, is at least partially based on compassion. If it didn't give an outlet for the compassion that people have for the working poor, socialism wouldn't even have been experimented with. Likewise, nationalism has a core of virtue. If socialism is twisted compassion, then nationalism is twisted patriotism. A patriot loves his country like he would loves his parents, whereas nationalists love it like a child. It is love, but not the love that's due, which doesn't make much of a difference when you want to protect your country from a foreign aggressor, but does make a difference when you want to protect it from an internal change. Let's say these allegories are 80% fitting. I wouldn't overstretch them.