The Atlantic writes for its owners as well as its readership, both of whom consider it unsavoury to compliment their homeland without adding multiple caveats.

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jquery 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

Considering who the current face of the country is and how we are acting on the world stage, it’s the least they can do.

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dcrazy 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This is why the right gets away with saying liberals hate America. Because as long as there is anything to criticize about America (which there always will be), some people simply cannot make a single truly positive statement about America, or even things that happened in or came from America.

Slate is even worse than The Atlantic in this regard.

	▲	cma 5 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Finally the explanation for why the Trump campaign slogan "Keep America Great" resonated so well against that kind of opposition backdrop.
	▲	mathgeek 7 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> This is why the right gets away with saying liberals hate America. This is a form of victim blaming. The right side of American politics gets away with it not because the left complains, but because the right doesn’t get punished at the polls for doing it.

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throw-the-towel 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

How is this kind of ritual flagellation supposed to mitigate Trump though?