George F. Will, WaPo:
Those who believe that the nation’s real founding was the arrival of slaves in 1619, that the American Revolution was fought to defend slavery, that the nation remains saturated with “systemic racism,” that the economic system has always been fundamentally exploitive, that the social order is rotten with injustice and that even the nation’s most revered historical figures are unworthy of respect — those who think like this can be credited with moral earnestness, but not with patriotism: They cannot love what they will not praise.
I don’t often like George Will, even when I agree with him, but I think this is a paragraph worthy of meditation, extraction of questions with regard to one’s own beliefs – especially for the woke – and derivation of answers to those questions that are more than “But, but, but!” and bulgy eyes.
