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“These patriotic men and women never missed a beat and kept the flying public safe throughout the shutdown,” Duffy said.

Parochialism and “group values” are bad, “universal” ones are good, but anyone deemed insufficiently patriotic gets the boot?

I am a patriotic American and a proud Jew.

Western missionaries were expelled; churches, mosques and temples were brought under state control or shuttered; and clergy who refused to join government-sanctioned “patriotic associations” were imprisoned.

When the current president of the United States is spearheading a whitewashing of American history with the goal of establishing a “patriotic” version, the series’ arrival seems especially timely.