The more curious question is why one would feel loyalty or “patriotism” for an abusive country that hates you and works to destroy you.

Charles, after calling everything from lawn mowers, to breweries, to allergies to your kid's hair oils, to single family homes, to cars "racist", you've finally found something in El Paso that is actual racism.

Congratulations.

@2
He's batting the same as the Mariners (.242 per espn), so buy him a stadium!
Or at least a $12 beer!

I don't think that these mass shooter types love their country at all. They love a vision of what the country would be if things were the way they want them (nationalistic and white-dominated to the point of running everyone else out), which is quite different. Whether they like it or not, there are a lot of Americans (a majority, I would hope) who DON'T want to live in a racist authoritarian country.

I think this is true of rightists and dictators in general - they claim to love their countries but in fact fight against what the country really is in favor of what they WANT it to be.

@5 Jeez GermanWeiner, the one time you should call someone a Nazi (El Paso shooter) and you didn't.

What gives dude-with-pedophile's username?

Or it could this: Patriotism or national pride is the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment.

Not Patriots: Mass murder's (actually any murderer's), white supremacists, antifa...

It doesn't take many word's to decribe.

Good article, but I think you meant to say the GOP is "now" caught in its self-made trap.

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” - J.K. Galbraith

I am justified. I am in the right. The world works according to rules that work for me above others.

We hold these kinds of principles so closely that we codify them in religion, politics, economy, academia, etc. White people in America are a prime example.

I assume you haven’t read any Ayn Rand, nullbull.

Your search is over.

@9 Of course GW Bush is a racist. I respectfully disagree with Charles on this point. You can't be a Republican and not be racist any more than you can be a nonracist Klansman. It's a white supremacist organization at its core and has been at least since Reagan and arguably since Nixon. The only difference between Bush and Trump is that Bush understood that the low birthrate among the native-born means the U.S. economy cannot reliably function without increased immigration and he wanted to make sure it was "legal" immigration. This bit of realism did more to turn the Republican base against him than did any of his big screwups (Iraq, Katrina, the thankfully failed Social Security privatization drive) and paved the way for Trump and his xenophobic fantasy of a whiter America that can never be. Bush was a pragmatist on that one issue. It does not make him "not a racist."