Ever since 9/11, a lot of pundits have been saying that patriotism is back in vogue. I personally don’t think it ever went out of vogue. I do think there were attempts to hijack its meaning by some groups that decided if you didn’t agree with them, then you weren’t patriotic. They perhaps felt that patriotism had gone out of vogue because what they saw did not match their definition.
I don’t believe that any one group of people can speak for what is or isn’t patriotic in America. A country built by rebels on the idea that shaking up