Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) had a simple request for Democratic activists attending anti-Trump rallies: “Bring an American flag.”
“When you are going to one of these rallies,” Slotkin told supporters, “you know everybody has all their different signs, all their different issues that they care about. Bring an American flag. Wear the red, white, and blue.”
If only it were that simple. Hostility toward America is now a defining characteristic of the Left. This antipathy has been cultivated for decades by elite academia, celebrities, and Democratic leaders. Slotkin’s proposal assumes that a “patriot switch” can be flipped, but this is naive in the extreme.
Young Democrats today would sooner burn a flag than wave one. A March Harvard Youth poll of 18-29-year-olds found that only 24% said they were proud to be American, while 54% said they were embarrassed. Meanwhile, an April YouGov poll of all Democrats found that the share who said they were proud to be American dropped to only 58%, down from 66% last year.