Isn't that what SPB is saying? Not that it's left or right but that it's compulsorily "patriotic" to virtue-signal by flag-waving, etc.
It gives me the yicks to see Irish politicians now following the British who were following the Americans and speaking with a background of a flag. I know who you are. You don't have to advertise your commitment to Ireland (or the various other countries doing this reflexively), I voted for you (or more other people voted for you than the person I voted for) and so I trust that you're representing my country.
Macron too, is doing this; perhaps it's defensive because two fascistic parties are breathing down his neck. Not to mention the militaristic galloping and symbolism of Belarus and Russia. Everywhere is looking increasingly creepily like the 1930s.