David Harsanyi on Obama’s So-Called ‘Economic Patriotism’

President Obama is once again
appealing to “economic
patriotism.” There are many reasons to despise this rhetorical
construct. Patriotism, after all, is the attachment to one’s
homeland. If a person not only resists things that are “patriotic”
but opposes them, then logic dictates that the person is being
unpatriotic.

If you oppose “economic patriotism”, the president is really
asking one question: Why do you hate America? But Obama’s idea of
economic patriotism is elastic, writes David Harsanyi. The contours
of its philosophy are identical to the president’s own left-wing
economic policy proposals. 

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