patriots

It's a drum he beats repeatedly, arguing that "patriots" — meaning, of course, white men — are unwilling to serve lest they be exposed to "CRT, DEI nonsense, all the gender nonsense."

On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly said he would pardon the rioters, whom he has called “patriots” and “political prisoners”.

“He compressed all public discussion into a childish dichotomy: patriots against traitors,” Silva-Herzog wrote.

He even suggested that the mob might be right to want to hang his vice president and has since embraced the attackers as patriots whom he may pardon if elected again.

Allegiances are often cloaked in the vernacular of America’s founding patriots.