How Donald Trump made me proud to be Hispanic

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The rush of Americans to identify as anything except American is an embarrassing denouement to end what was once at least a plausibly great (aka passably acceptable) nation.

A great America is first a good America. Trump would debase America, so he could not make America great, whether for the first time or 'again'.

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Hispanics have a strong tendency to assimilate non-Hispanics into their culture.

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Burning a national flag is an insult to that country. Of course I can fully understand someone burning a Soviet flag as a protest of its lack of political freedom, let alone the swastika flag of Nazi Germany. But those flags indicated an ideology. Burning the flag of Ba'athist Iraq? Sure. It was a murderous regime. A Confederate flag?  The Confederate flags were associated with the defense of slavery, an abomination to any decent person. 

Burning a national flag that has only a connection to a nation is a puerile deed. Someone who burns the flag of the UK at a soccer match between his non-British team and a British team is offensive. But back to Old Glory: it means something. Forty-eight stars and thirteen stripes marched into Dachau and Mauthausen, signaling an end to the criminal management of those close simulations of Hell.

People do great harm to their cause by burning a US flag and no good.