Interesting perspective!

   From today's  Daily Reformer:

What’s concerning, however, is the Trumpist base that continues to rally around him. Georgetown historian Thomas Zimmer sums up their worldview. To say they are choosing partisanship over country misses the point, he argues: 

Right wingers have decided that they *are* the country, everyone else is an enemy. They have been painting the Democratic Party as not just a political opponent, but an “Un-American” enemy – a fundamentally illegitimate political faction captured by the radical forces of leftism, liberalism, wokeism, and multiculturalism. The Right doesn’t see the struggle between Republicans and Democrats as a competition between political opponents — but as an existential conflict over whether or not the only version of the country they are willing to accept as “America” will survive and endure.