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patriotism

noun as in love of one's country

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Despite it all, dozens of tanker truckers still brave the roads, driven on by "necessity" and "patriotism", they say.

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This was his theme, over and over, as if critics were demanding he hand over his faith and patriotism to Israel.

This absolutely loony bit of racist paranoia spawned an “election integrity” movement that cloaked itself as patriotism and fairness, but at heart remained doused in fear-of-brown.

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But the instinct to protect something quintessentially American is patriotism, not politics.

Hillquit would have understood the importance of this moment, when too many Americans are once again ready to crumble before the most toxic forms of patriotism.

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