Patriotism in America is at a crossroads. Our mission is to reclaim and safeguard it in the age of Trump. — The South Dakota Standard

Patriotism in America is at a crossroads. Our mission is to reclaim and safeguard it in the age of Trump. — The South Dakota Standard

Patriotism in America is at a crossroads. Once rooted in shared values — service, sacrifice, civic duty, and dissent — it now sits in a fractured landscape. In the Trump era, what it means to love one’s country becomes a contested battleground, often reduced to a test of loyalty to one man rather than a commitment to the nation and its democratic principles.Donald Trump did not invent this brand of exclusionary patriotism, but he amplifies it. H…