It Was In The 1960s That The Left Convinced Itself That There Is Something Fascistic About Patriotism And Something Perversely "patriotic" About Running Down America. Anti-americanism - A Stand-in For Hatred Of Western Civilization - Became The Stuff Of Sophisticates And Intellectuals As Never Before. Flag Burners Became The Truest "patriots" Because Dissent - Not Just From Partisan Politics, But The American Project Itself - Became The Highest Virtue.

-Jonah Goldberg

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It Was In The 1960s That The

Jonah Goldberg

It Was In The 1960s That The Left Convinced Itself That There Is Something Fascistic About Patriotism And Something Perversely "patriotic" About Running Down America. Anti-americanism - A Stand-in For Hatred Of Western Civilization - Became The Stuff Of Sophisticates And Intellectuals As Never Before. Flag Burners Became The Truest "patriots" Because Dissent - Not Just From Partisan Politics, But The American Project Itself - Became The Highest Virtue.

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Running

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America

If You Spend Any Time In Washington You'll Find Nerds. What Happens Is Most Of Them Sublimate Their Fixations With Comics, Or Baseball Cards, Or 1960s British Comedies To Policy Minutiae And Political Arcana. But, Like Christians In Ancient Rome, You Can Still Spot Them If You Know The Signals.

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