“Performative patriotism” is a fancy way of describing what my father – a veteran of World War II who rarely spoke about his service – called “jelly-bellied flag flappers.” Dad always laughed at those phonies, but we now suffer a president who is exactly that type, only worse. And Donald Trump’s flag-flapping fakery is no joke. A performative patriot is someone who, like Trump, oversells his supposed love of country, his reverence for the Stars […]
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