Word: moi
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Patriotism has most often gone wrong when people have confused loyalty to the republic with loyalty to one government or another. Political leaders almost invariably seek to legitimize themselves by the d'etat, c 'est moi "strategy that makes their own interests inseparable from the well-being of the country itself; disloyalty to one becomes disloyalty to the other. Thus the Nixon Administration had it that its critics were unpatriotic. J. Edgar Hoover used the FBI to try to destroy the lives of "unpatriotic" Americans like Martin Luther King...