'Among the Republicans' - V.S. Naipaul in 1984

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Since everyone else is too much of an intellectual coward to engage with this, I'll risk upping my posts-per-day count by asking the following: Arendt observed what she believed to be a disagreeable tendency in some continental European parties to, for reasons she associated with multi-party systems, tend to--both rhetorically and in the form of political parties--raise the "nation" above politics as an ideal, and one that should not be besmirched by political bickering. This, she presumably tied to the growth of authoritarianism. While it's very easy to say that id-based "love it 'er leave it"-style "patriotism" is harmful to democratic practice, would it be fair to say that Naipaul sees not just that, but a shift away from ideology as classically formulated to this, and that this movement in itself is bad?