All the time the left is arguing against nationalism. Making seem like a disgusting thing to be a proud American, or to want preserve American traditions.
Be consistent and support America always, and then your concerns will be taken seriously.
“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, “although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,” wrote Orwell, tends to be “uninterested in what happens in the real world.” Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism “has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.” A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.
― Timothy Snyder,
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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That Trump colluded with the Russians. That part is not true. It never was true.
From the Mueller report:
“Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...er-report-showed-that-russia-did-affect-vote/
It is not that collusion did not happen. Collusion is not a crime. But collusion most certainly happened. One such example was the Trump Tower meeting, where the Russians told Trump Jr. that they had dirt on Hillary, and that they were reaching out to him as part of Trump's effort to help Trump win. Trump Jr. said "love it", and the meeting was held. That is collusion, even if not a criminal offense. Other campaigns might have notified the FBI of this outreach by a foreign adversary of the United States.
