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Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Obama’s “patriotism problem” is that he isn’t a complacent reactionary like me. Exactly the kind of logic that led to the National Review‘s “patriotic” defense of apartheid. Certainly, we couldn’t consider that “patriotism” could consist of comparing a country’s stated ideals with some of its contemporary practices!