“In fact, the article makes the case that the country has become a caricature of itself overrun by lawyers and jingoists.”
The minute you use that word jingoists, you are so busted!!!
The minute this country voluntarily elected a Marxist to the Presidency, Worley's song became a historical footnote about a country that no longer exists. Wagner didn't intend his music as a background for Hitler's Germany either.
I'm a frog that knows the water temp.