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The song Trump loves gives tune to his spreading rot
Patriotism as a Blank CheckThe Concert, the Message, the DamageThe immediate story is small and revealing: after musician after musician pulled out of Trump’s “Freedom 250” concert, the event was left with Lee Greenwood, an opera tenor, a few military bands, and Kash Patel’s girlfriend. The deeper story is bigger. The article treats that lineup not as an embarrassment but as a symptom of how Trump-style politics keeps trying to convert patriotism into spectacle, loyalty, and permission.Who Actually Holds PowerTrump holds the institutional power here. Not Greenwood. Not the singers who backed…
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