What do conservatives do when they aren't, insulting a war hero, musing about secession, defending monuments to traitors, celebrating Confederate Memorial day, saying that we need guns to fight our own government?

Well, they question the patriotism of others, of course. 


The Trump White House has turned questioning one’s patriotism into a talking point

Mike Pompeo will probably be confirmed as the next secretary of state — but not before what looks to be an embarrassing loss in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee later today.

And the biggest casualty of all this may be our political discourse.

With Pompeo in some peril, the White House and Republicans have deployed the nuclear option of talking points: questioning their opponents’ patriotism.

“Look, at some point, Democrats have to decide whether they love this country more than they hate this president,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday morning on Fox News.


Shortly thereafter, the National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a news release titled “Party before country?” It said that “Democrats are taking ‘party before country’ to a new level” and suggested that their votes against Pompeo translated to “national security consequences be damned.”

Sanders employed a version of her quote above in January during the immigration debate. A week later, she said it again of Democrats who failed to applaud during Trump’s State of the Union address. Trump at the time suggested that those Democrats might be guilty of treason, which the White House clarified was just a joke. But Trump also said, with nary a hint of humor, that Democrats “certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.”

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