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Historian details how Trump has killed American patriotism to satisfy his own ego
Trump Hijacked the 250th, and the Press Is Still Calling It “Patriotism”A celebration turned personal propertyThe source story is simple: what should have been a national milestone has been bent into Donald Trump’s ego project, and two anti-Trump conservatives are trying to explain why a lot of Americans now feel less proud of the country. That is the surface. The deeper story is power: Trump controls the symbolic machinery, and he uses it to fuse loyalty to the nation with loyalty to himself.Who actually did thisTrump did not merely “complicate” patriotism. He weaponized it. The source makes…
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