I hope our country’s president is not as deranged as he sounds. Surely he knows that our elected lawmakers — regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin — have as much of a right to praise or criticize our country as he did when he launched his presidency with his dark “American carnage” inaugural address.

Now his rant about the squad sounds like the “America Love It Or Leave It” bumper stickers from the Vietnam War era.

And his rhetorical attempt to devalue their citizenship sounds like birtherism on steroids — or, to put it more bluntly, identity politics for white folks.

In that vein, Trump was asked at an impromptu news conference Monday if he was concerned that white nationalists had found common cause with him after he said the four progressive Democrats should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

“It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me,” Trump said. “And all I’m saying is if they want to leave, they can leave.”

Yes, many people agree with the president, I am sure. Many of them are racists and sexists, although, as Trump said about Mexican immigrants, “some, I am sure, are good people.”