Of course she wasn’t. But the left today would likely label her one due to her penchant for singing “God Bless America”. Afterall, singing that song today might get you labelled not a “patriot”, but a far right fascist Nazi, or just as evil, a "religious zealot".
Patriotism today will get you monitored by the FBI, and possibly relegated to a “no fly list” like Tulsi Gabbard was.
Come now Trump as one of the “Three Tenors” singing “God Bless America.”
https://x.com/margommartin/status/1856880252615610474
Times they are a changin’. At one point in 1979 Smith was accused of being a racist for having several old songs in her repertoire about “darkies and “pickaninnies” in spite of the fact that being born in 1907, those words were as commonly used then as “people of color” is used today. She was neither a "Nazi" nor a "racist.
Until the last several decades patriotism was considered “good”. Singing “God Bless America” a worthy tribute to our nation. But now I wonder if the left will slander Trump and Musk for singing that song out of a fabricated fear that they may be far right Nazi’s. The left believes its fascist to love your country.