7) There is certainly a connection between the nationalism of the 19th century and later paganism, but that movement was one of discovery and sometimes took the wrong direction, i.e. imperialism. Our task today is to distinguish the good of that period, from the bad. Part of the bad is the term “folkish” as well as the Nordicism that somehow seeks a racial supremacy over Europe and beyond as well as to make Hitler the German equivalent of Genghis Khan…The Nordicists (not at all synonymous with traditional Germanic polytheists) are as much a part of the problem as the universalists, if not more.