Let's barricade Tucker in a room with a crowd screaming for his head outside the room and see how radical he thinks they might look...that women was very radical by all accounts. Even most of her family says she was a patriot, buy she was bizarrely obsessed with Trump and Qanon.
I'm so fucking tired of this word. A patriot loves their country and defends it. These days it's just code for "Republican nationalist." It's the new "tough on communism." I'm a patriot for waving a flag, regardless of whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. You don't support the DoD having an unlimited budget? You're not a patriot. Those same "patriots" then chafe at the prospect of paying more taxes to fund it. That's just socialism. I'm sure everybody who smashed their way into the Congress this week and beat a cop to death thought they were patriots. A not insignificant number of them were in the streets last summer demanding the right to gun down anybody who protested police violence or attacked the police or vandalized America. Now they've caused the very violence they purported to be defending against and we're supposed to sympathize with them and their alleged patriotism.
I would argue that even 'pure' patriotism, i.e. non-corrupted patriotism, is still not much of a virtue. At best it's benign and at worst it sows seeds of something quite malignant.
We are all citizens of the world, and though we might owe our individual countries a civic duty (e.g. to vote, to pay taxes), the notion of being proud of, and identifying strongly with, a geo-political entity simply because you were born there strikes me as a bit arbitrary and irrational. Particularly in this cosmopolitan day and age where your neighbours might have been born somewhere else, and speak a different language, and practise a different religion (or no religion). Perhaps it's because I grew up in three continents and therefore have no sense of patriotism to any given place, but I think the world would be better off without patriotism.