[bagster]

Even the word “patriot” is abused by the left.

I don't give a damn about the left and what they say.

There is a schism in the conservative movement. Its time for true Americans to break away from the Lincoln Project cucks and reclaim the party.

Dems are not patriots. Rinos are not patriots.

We are patriots. American patriots, which is not similar to Russian patriots. Russians are patriotic to Russia.

[Olog-hai]

Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

— Communist goal #15, from “The Naked Communist” (1958), Chapter 12

The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”

Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …

— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), Chapter 2, page 15

There is no schism in the conservative movement, but an invasion. The RINOs are left-wingers who lie about being conservative, and that has been the case for at least over a century.

And my point with referencing the USSR and what they call WWII is that anyone can call himself a “patriot”; remember the admonition about “summer soldier(s) and sunshine patriot(s)” from Paine.