I guess I must have misunderstood. My bad. When you said you are a nationalist, I thought you were a conservative. This is why I asked you about Trump. Like you said, Irish Republicans have nothing to do with US Republicans. If anything, you are on the left of the vast majority of US Democrats on the political spectrum.
I would say Irish Republicans are to the left (and very significantly so) of pretty much all Democrats. The Democrat Party in a European context would be considered very much a right wing party and even Sanders would be viewed as a very moderate centrist, at most centre left. The left in America (apart from a few very fringe parties) doesn't exist. That's not intended to provoke, it's just the reality. There is a fear of the left in America which simply isn't present in Europe. Without going too deeply into it, Rosa Luxemburg would be extremely close to my politics and I would in fact consider myself a Luxemburgist. I'd be happy to carry on talking about this via pm if you'd like to but I'm conscious of being a new member so I don't want to get too into it in open.
I love this! Most posters here are right wingers by european standards. That said, the political spectrum is leaning heavily towards the right recently. Not just in the US, in most european countries as well. I would argue that Ireland is one of the few exceptions. For instance, the greek government is self identified as neoliberal. Don't get me started on neoliberals, but in fact they're even worse than that. We have a very oppressive government which controls literally all nation-wide media and only serves the interests of banks, multinationals and a bunch of greek oligarchs. We even got a couple of high-profile fascist ministers. I'm talking about legit fascists in the mold of Orban, Trump, Bolsonaro, Salvini, Le Pen and so on.
Welcome to the forum mate! You're like a breath of fresh air!