From patriotic magnetic flags or yellow ribbons on cars, mailboxes, tied to trees in our yards, and Old Glory flying high and proud, patriotism is on the rise, and has become ever more important to us in our day to day lives. George Orwell , Essay: Notes on Nationalism (1945). The following year, Americans flocked to "Casablanca," which unsubtlely villified the Nazis and glorified the resistance of European conquered peoples as a backdrop to the now immortal love triangle of Rick, Ilsa, and Victor.
Apparently that is enough, however, to satisfy many people, especially families who have lost a son or daughter to war and former
soldiers who have lost friends, and who need to be reassured that the patriotic response of their loved ones was justified and that they didn't die in vain.
Echoing Socrates in Plato's Crito (51c-51d), Maurizio Viroli writes: … We have a moral obligation towards our country because we are indebted to it. We owe our country our life, our education, our language, and, in the most fortunate cases, our liberty.
From day one, Trump's bizarre fealty to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, his serial betrayals of U.S. national security from Ukraine to Syria, and his party's tireless efforts to cover his tracks invited Democrats to bolster their bona fides as resolute patriots and guardians of national security and prestige.
In fact, I would argue that in globally connected nations, like we have today — this interdependent world of ours — you probably will fail to love your country if you fail to work for the good of other countries as well; we're just too interdependent for that not to be true.