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Ep. 2455 - The Left REJECTS The Flag, The Bible… And AOC?!
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The Left Rejects the American Flag
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Shapiro's thesis is blunt: whatever Trump embraces, his opponents reflexively disown — and that now includes the American flag itself. He cites a widely-read NBC News piece titled 'Many Americans Say Stars and Stripes Is Now a Red Flag,' featuring interviews with Americans who plan to fly the flag upside-down, replace it with the Pennsylvania state flag, or substitute the Pride flag or a Philadelphia Eagles banner. Shapiro finds this baffling and self-defeating, arguing that the flag belongs to no party but to the principles of the Declaration of Independence. He invokes Frederick Douglass's 1852 July 4th speech as the gold standard for engaging with an imperfect country — critiquing it while still fighting for its promise, rather than abandoning its symbols. A Rhode Island teacher who stopped flying the flag after Trump's 2024 re-election because she has 'a gay son and a trans son' draws a pointed rebuttal: surrendering the flag to the right is a bold and counterproductive move.
The American flag survived being flown over a slave-owning nation and came out representing abolition. Surrendering it to MAGA is the single dumbest political move the left has made.
