My California cousin is a hair-on-fire liberal Democrat.  That fact notwithstanding, he admirably belongs to the rapidly shrinking number of patriots in the party he's supported all his adult life.  According to a 2018 Gallup survey,  patriotism is cratering in the modern Democratic Party, with less than a third of today's Democrats extremely proud of their country.  Less than a third, and trending sharply downward.  That should be troubling to my cousin. When he started his career in the 1960s, patriotism ran so deep in both parties that I doubt it even occurred to Gallup to do a survey on love of country back then.  According to CNN, Gallup's first survey on patriotic fervor wasn't done until 2001.  But attitudes in political parties can change dramatically over time. A sharp turn toward the hardest edge of the hard left In addition to Gallup's finding that love of country is dropping like a rock among...(Read Full Article)