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loving your country enough to want it to deserve the love.
means a felt loyalty to one's nation and its people, distinct from loyalty to whoever currently runs it.
from from greek patris, fatherland, via latin patriota, filtered through 18th-century europe when nations started needing citizens to die for abstractions instead of kings.
samuel johnsoncalled it the last refuge of a scoundrel.
nationalism cousinoften confused, morally quite different.
orwell's takedefensive, not aggressive, unlike nationalism.