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America is Great Precisely Because It’s Not

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America is Great Precisely Because It’s Not

On the love of country, even if it doesn't always treat you well.

Shadi Hamid
Jul 4, 2022
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America is Great Precisely Because It’s Not

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America is Great Precisely Because It’s Not

To love a country is perhaps not so different than loving a person. It is inelegant, a fundamentally irrational process, one that might be easy to explain to yourself but not necessarily to others. Or maybe it’s like loving the members of your family; you do not lose your love because of their faults. Instead, you love despite great faults, and then, in…

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