They’re proud of the “real” America. Those others in this country don’t count and need to be eliminated.

I’m proud to be an american, where they’re sleeping in the streets.

And I won’t forget the man who died, while “resisting” the police.

And I’ll proudly stand up for barbecue, if it’s what’s on sale today.

Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land. But screw the libs and gays!

It's also really strange that conservatives love gutting the government... Which is a pretty big part of what makes a country. They they love that flag.

Still too low.

It will probably be too late by then

Naw, it ain't going full empire.

You can get a certain pride in going full empire. You can pretend that you deserve the power as you are the peak of civilization bearing the white man's burden to run the world. It is really hard to have that pride in Trump unless you're really fucking dumb.

I was a junior in 2001. Had an elective history class that a lot of honors students, myself included, were in. This particular class was called "Holocaust", and it was basically German history 1930-1945.

That teacher was very easy to take off track. One day, late October, we got to talking about the PATRIOT act. I remember being totally in awe of how many people, my peers, were in favor of it, and didn't see it as a bad idea.