America's founding - both the "pilgrims coming ashore" phase, and the "British are coming!" phase - was one part tax rebellion, one part belief in the superiority of local governance, and one part desire to establish a devout, Christian, "city on a hill". Those may or may not have been Conservative notions at the time, but they are what paved the way for the nation's success between that point and today, and they are fundamentally most in line with the values of the Republican party and the Conservative movement.

A movement that seeks to overhaul or supplant the values on which our country was founded, with cautions incessantly against loving our country too much, which seeks to make our country just another face in the crowd of nations....is, fundamentally, not a movement that can ever be labeled as patriotic.