I tried to write a sentence in the same spirit.

"I love my partner more than any other person in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize them perpetually".

Why doesn't my sentence work, except for the lunatic? Because America is not a person or an object, it is an idea and praxis. He loves the idea, but perpetually criticizes the praxis.

But I find it inappropriate to use the pronoun “she/her,” as Baldwin does. It is an “it,” an idea/praxis (in this case, in other cases it can also be a geographical location).