Progressives Disdain America but Love Being Free to Do So

Is there anything that would actually make them love this country? Do they understand why so many people-not only in America-admire it?

What about all those others who seem to despise everything this country stands for even now that the people they like are in charge, like most of our academics, the staff who run HR departments for big American companies, the prime-time hosts on CNN? I wonder in particular what sort of country they imagine would be better than this.

Last weekend Gwen Berry, an African-American athlete, qualified to represent her country at next month's Olympics.

In most countries in the world, if a talented athlete had been trained, developed and selected from thousands to represent the nation, then went and publicly trashed it all, the public opprobrium would be unrelenting.

You can denounce what your country stands for and get elected to Congress.

Blacks from Africa, Latinos from Central and South America and Asians from Kamchatka to Kerala are yearning to live in the country we are told is defined by white privilege, xenophobia and ruthless oppression of minorities.

What kind of enduring appeal must a country have, what kind of values must it convey to the world that it can so easily supersede the strenuous efforts of its own people to defame it?

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