Democrats' patriotism problem

 David Strom:

Jonathan Capehart, a Washington Post columnist and MSNBC host, is arguing that Democrats need to retake the high ground on patriotism. It really bugs him that people associate patriotism with Republicans, while it is the Democrats who are the real patriots.

Yeah right. I have no idea why anybody would think that Democrat leaders and commentators aren’t patriotic. Maybe because of statements like this:

Capehart’s argument is not uncommon, of course. Democrats have been frustrated by the fact that Republicans have been more successful with patriotic messaging than they since at least the 60’s. Kennedy clearly was very patriotic with his messaging, but ever since Democrats have been associated with criticizing America, not embracing it. Clinton did pretty well connecting with average Americans and seems to like us, but Democrats in general seem to prefer global elites and global values to American ones.

The Democrat elite, at least, cannot be considered all that patriotic. Disdaining American history, American values, and the American people is totally on brand for them. Democrats kneel, they apologize, they insist that America is systemically racist, sexist, homophobic, imperialist, filled with deplorables, and just generally inferior to just about everyone else.

That’s why it’s important to take a knee when the national anthem is played. It is a way to show love and respect for America, or something.

The Left hates America, and spends a lot of time explaining to us precisely why this is so. Even a mainstream Democrat like Andrew Cuomo–who was everybody’s hero until #metoo caught up with him, insisted that America was never that great.

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It has been a long time since Democrats acted like they loved America and its founding.  It is certainly another good reason to vote against them. 

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