While it’s accurate to say progressives despise America, it is no less true that they love America. Both assertions are so, because two definitions of this country are in play.

Elucidation is called for.

The America progressives hate (and conservatives love) is the real America. The one with a noble history, constitution, national heroes, geographic location, appropriate national sovereignty (that entails the right to eject invaders), unique cultural identity, linguistic cohesiveness, and global predominance.

It is a nation whose legal citizens – and only legal citizens – determine its character and advancement. It is understood that citizenship is precious, has legal definition, and must not be granted wholesale to mysterious foreigners whose initial impulse on entering America is to perpetrate criminality.

In the real America, inventors and entrepreneurs have the liberty to create, produce, and raise up businesses either modest or massive, employing many who are then able to pay bills and put food on family tables. Freedom benefits us all.

The real America saved the world from scourges of Nazism and Communism. It continues to destroy Islamic terrorism. Imagine how very different – and worse – ours and other nations would be today, were those wicked phenomena victorious.

Progressive Democrats, by and large, wax reverently about a chimerical nation whose existence is exclusive to cracked imaginings.

The capitalist system on which America has thrived is vilified. Attempted economic efforts are beset from drawing boards on by an increasing host of do-gooder regulations that strangle productivity. (Death by a thousand cuts.) Competitor countries are aided, while regular American people suffer in manners manifest.

In progressives’ conception, America is a borderless country where all the world’s peoples are free to enter whenever they please, and without discretion exercised by authorities representing legal citizens. (Schools, hospitals, and social services would crumble under the greatly increased weight. And no one would be well served – or served, at all.)

Crimes are not to be punished. Rather, perpetrators’ allegedly dire backstories are fancied exculpatory.

Prisons and jails (indeed, the concept of punishment itself), would be abolished. Law enforcement would be defunded. Perhaps the law enforcement officers of ICE would be taught basket-weaving in woke re-education camps.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan once notoriously observed that citizens there should accept terrorist bombings as “part and parcel of living in a great city.” That errant philosophy would soon degrade America.

And when law officials and righteous citizens do prevent perils, progressives’ knee-jerk, only concern is for the potentially murderous nut’s well-being – not public safety.

Laws can be observed or disregarded, they apparently believe, depending upon each person’s preference. Rather than only the democratically enacted standard for morality/immorality, right/wrong governing citizens’ actions, all are thought to have a personal reality and right to any conduct they choose. To argue oppositionally is to be “intolerant,” the worst offense possible in their tilted dimension.

(Never mind that general opposition to injustice and deviance is necessary for the maintenance of civilizational order.)

Rather than a unified populace whose members speak with one tongue – in conversation, governmental documents, and commercial signage – this land would host peoples whose only bond is geographic. Wherever one went, multifarious languages would assail the ear. This would be a house divided.

Nor would citizens exercise proper determinative authority to chart America’s course.

Progressives’ swirling-smoke concoction classes their permanent political eminence above citizen liberty. Choreographed courtroom skullduggery for the grimy purpose of eliminating electoral competitors is thought a legitimate tool. That is rational only in their fetid miasma, not in our actual country.

Here in the America of reality, it is right and proper for consideration of proposed international policies to commence with the question: Is it good for our nation? Progressives seem concerned foremost with effects that might be rendered on foreign lands, not on the American people.

The hallucinogenic notion of an America that is all wacky things to all wacky people will never be material. Instead, the real, true America will endure, traitors’ feeble machinations being of no serious consequence.

And that is a very good thing.

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Waterloo’s DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits the Tucker Carlson-founded Daily Caller, The Iowa Standard,

and American Thinker. And his political blog

is American Scene Magazine.