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Gregor: The False Dichotomy of Nationalism Versus Patriotism

Recently, the President of the United States stated that he is a nationalist. That sent tremors throughout the globalist and leftist academic community. Almost immediately, the President of France felt called upon to explain why his country cousins in North America should be disturbed. We were told that nationalism was “the very opposite” of patriotism. Thus, the President of France apparently still recognizes the Stalinist distinction between nationalism and patriotism he learned at university from his leftist professors.

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump (R), French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and German C

Hayward: NFL Anthem Rules Expose the Left’s Warped View of Patriotism

When President Donald Trump praised the NFL on Thursday for requiring players to stand during the National Anthem and suggested players should quit the game – or perhaps even the country – if they cannot abide by the rule, he put his finger on the vital pressure point in America’s great social divide: the definition of patriotism.

Patriotism

Trump to U.N.: America ‘Among the Greatest Forces for Good in the History of the World’

The concluding passages of President Donald Trump’s address to the U.N. General Assembly sought to define and defend patriotism – not only for Americans, although naturally his focus was on the patriotic history of his own country. Trump called for a revival of patriotic spirit around the world, in the process delivering a backhanded slap to globalism without calling it out by name.

Donald Trump at UN (Mary Altaffer / Associated Press)

Maher: ‘Donald Trump Is Not a Patriot’

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that “Donald Trump is not a patriot, because a true patriot would say to Russia, ‘Look, even though you’re helping me, that’s not the way we win elections here.’”

Bill Maher on 6/17/16 "Real Time"