There's this idea that we need to combat it with american patriotism. The right doesn't view patriotism as some kind of American project, but in fact they have a more correct understanding of what it has been historically than liberals seem to have. It's a very curious instinct, because you want to create national unity and that maybe most of the time it's not benign. But who cares? For a very good reason post 19th century slave owners exist in distinct parallel from the histories of palestinians or zionist militias. And there's something childish about wanting to retcon oppressed peoples by the power structure which is united in its most axiomatic way. That would really make