It’s pretty pathetic that they don’t see how ridiculous they sound.
Clarence Thomas was right; there is nothing that binds us together as a country. The left has spent the last 50 years dismantling the WASP culture of the Founding Fathers; as a Catholic I understood the value of that culture in this country.
Elites don’t know how to deal with a population that has lost faith in just about every institution; they know it resulted in Trump’s election, and are determined to prevent a repeat of that. In the meantime, I don’t consider most the people I deal with every day as my “countrymen”; we’ve been divided along enough fault lines (race, gender, faith, language, cats or dogs) that any attempt at finding common ground is futile - exactly as intended. This gives inordinate power to smaller tight groups.