Before you get trapped in definitions of patriotism, don’t forget that even George Washington was a traitor. He led the rebellion against his legal sovereign, the King of Great Britain. That’s the very definition of traitor.
In fact, every one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were traitors and would have been hanged as such if they were captured. Only by some miracle did the Americans actually win the war and therefore the former “traitors” became patriots since they got to rewrite the history books.
Do our current batch of leaders have even a fraction of this kind of self sacrificing fortitude? I don’t think so.
