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“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” said British intellectual Samuel Johnson in April 1775, a couple of weeks before the “shot heard round the world” at Lexington began the Revolutionary War.
Johnson didn’t mean that patriotism was bad. He meant that when crooked, venal people run out of other ideas, they turn to patriotic bombast to divert attention from their low character.
Two centuries later, calling people Nazis is the last refuge of the progressive media mob….
