^ This.
Although, I tend to consider the best things about USA-ness to be the original principles of liberty, freedom (including religious freedom), the pursuit of happiness, equality, fraternity (hopefully, in a non-sexist sense), opportunity. Ironically, that tends to have me judge things typically called “un-American” as very er… against the original good things about the USA.
I also notice that the people trying hardest to claim “patriotism” and “American” as aligned with their political views, tend to be authoritarian and rule-bound, valuing obedience, conformity, working hard at a job, silencing protestors, corporate power, imposing Christian doctrine and morality, locking up rule-breakers, immigrants, dissenters, whistleblowers, non-capitalists and putting them to work in for-profit prisons, sexism, favoring white people, etc…