Can Democrats Ever Rediscover Their Patriotism?

The party of Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, Antifa, Hillary Clinton, CNN, MSNBC, Academia, Hollywood, and Antifa; if Trump loses, they win. TD

"A New York Times op-ed argues Democrats must stop ceding love of America to the GOP, but how much do they really love it?"

The Federalist "In yesterday’s New York Times, Jefferson Cowie had some good advice for Democrats. Essentially, he argued the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson must discover a way to embrace patriotism, something he says they have ceded to Republicans. The neoliberal wing of the party, he argues, has become so pro-trade and -globalism, and the progressive wing has become so skeptical of the value of the American experiment, that little room is left for flag-waving.

"There is certainly no shortage of evidence to suggest that pride in America is not a central plank of the American left just at the moment. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently remarked that America was never that great, the National Football League protests take place during the national anthem, and Antifa protesters recently ripped the American flag from a more moderate liberal protester at a rally.

""TV writer Aaron Sorkin gave us a taste of this change with a famous speech in his show “Newsroom” arguing that America is not the greatest country on earth. That effort came only a few years after he had written “The West Wing,” a show with a much deeper patriotic feel to it.

"This rhetorical shift is a danger for Democrats. It plays very well in certain bubbles where they have great success, but in the broader country it seems to fall flat." . . .

 . . . "One cannot imagine Obama or any major Democratic politician that came before him saying America was never that great. Until very recently, no Democrat would ever have suggested that America is a bad actor in the world in any significant way, or that its history has not promoted the greater good. This is clearly no longer the case." . . .

Wait! What? If Obama didn't think we were bad, why did he travel the world apologizing for the acts of America, and bowing before world leaders to show our contrition? TD