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[ ![True Patriot](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/opinions/2025/January/truepatiots/Patriot-intro.png) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/nikki-bascome/true-patriots)

Have you heard the phrase “true patriot”? Here lately it seems to be thrown around like confetti on a princess birthday cake by Republicans trying to make a point or prove their superiority over one another.

  29 January 2025