A guarantor of liberalism
An unfortunate trope among the global liberal elite is the demonisation of patriotism. Often, extremist nationalist groups of the 20th century, such as the Nazis, or the Italian Fascists, are used as examples to try and make us wary of patriotism and patriots. Of course, the Nazis, Italian Fascists and their ilk merit strong opprobrium.
But using them repeatedly to tar patriotism itself is, honestly, unfortunate. What would you call those who use the examples of Mao and Stalin-the worst mass-murderers of the 20th century-to tar all Marxists, or those who cite genocidal maniacs like Timur, Alauddin Khilji and Aurangzeb to argue that all of Islam is fanatical? Patently biased, right?
Why is it different for patriotism?
One may argue-why bother with liberal harangues on patriotism when liberalism itself seems to be losing the argument globally and nationalists seem
