America just celebrated the Fourth of July, but you wouldn’t know it from a large part of the country. The Left launched a full-out assault on the United States, its flag, and its national anthem.
Black Lives Matter — which just praised Communist Cuba for cracking down on protesters — had its Utah chapter post a message on Facebook calling the American flag “a symbol of hatred.”
Third-place Olympic hopeful Gwen Berry turned her back when the national anthem played… as she represented the United States.
She later, falsely, claimed the third verse is racist. (It’s actually about the king of England.)
Left-wing members of Congress like Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., an ally of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Independence Day proves there’s only freedom for “white people” in America.
And news outlets from the New York Times to The Washington Post ran highly visible stories attacking the American flag or patriotism in general.
Well, Americans have had enough of it.
They’re standing up, taking off their hats, putting their hands on their hearts, and saying they’re proud to be Americans.
Take a few examples. Shoppers at a Walmart in Haslet, Texas, lifted every voice and sang after one shopper started singing the “Star-Spangled Banner” over Fourth of July weekend. A video on TikTok shows one shopper begin singing — and then another, and then the entire store was standing at attention, hands over hearts, saluting the flag.
That came just a few weeks after NHL fans went viral for singing the national anthem at a New York Islanders game.
Before the fourth game of the team’s series with Boston, the singer’s microphone malfunctioned, so the fans finished the “Star Spangled Banner” on their own.
To prove it wasn’t a one-off, NHL fans did the same thing before game 6. These patriotic fans aren’t simply compensating for a dysfunctional sound system or making people smile on social media.
They’re taking America back, one verse at a time.
And Fox News host Sean Hannity is urging every American to join in on the patriotism.
“I want fans to take over every sport, loudly, proudly, unapologetically,” said Sean Hannity on his Fox News program. “I want this to become the norm … baseball, basketball, football, UFC, every sport.”
Sports are supposed to bring together people from “all socioeconomic background, all races, all creeds, etc., everybody, united by a common passion, and that is a love of their home team,” he said.
“I think this is one way for fans to take their sports back and get rid of the politics that is poisoning what should be the most unifying moment with strangers of all backgrounds,” said Hannity.
Team spirit is sort of like patriotism: Americans come from all different origins, from every country on the Earth. What unites us — or, at least, what always used to unite us — is that we all came here to live in freedom… to love the United States, “the land of opportunity,” for everything its Constitution and Bill of Rights gives us.
But we’re losing that.
Political ideologues decided the easiest route to power is to “divide and conquer.” So, they emphasized our race, religion, sex, “gender identity,” economic background, whether we’re urban or rural—every little thing that can split America into a million atomized pieces and isolate us from one another.
And it’s not going so well lately.
Real Clear Politics polled people based on patriotism and found some shocking results. “Fully 85% of Americans consider themselves patriotic,” said RCP. But it’s not evenly distributed.
“The overall number of whites who describe themselves as very patriotic is significantly higher (58%) than for African Americans (37%), Hispanics (36%), or (Asian Americans 28%). Republicans (68%) are much more willing to describe themselves this way than Democrats or independents, both of whom are around 40%.”
There’s a political aspect to it.
RCP’s senior analyst Sean Trende dug into those numbers a little deeper.
“Being Hispanic increases your odds, all other things being equal, of giving a less patriotic response than whites by 17%, compared to 48% for blacks and 89% for Asians,” he wrote. “The odds that a voter who was Hispanic would be a Democrat were 11% higher than that he or she would be Republican, compared to 62% for blacks.”
Democrats know that everyone really wants the same thing: strong families, good jobs, a country they can love and call their own.
They also know that conservative Republican policies deliver this way better than liberalism. Democrats excel at stoking outrage, pointing fingers, and passing the buck. So, they tell their voters that America can’t deliver on this promise — in fact, that America doesn’t even want to.
It’s a politically inspired lie, and a shameless one. And Americans of all backgrounds need to keep pushing back.
And they are.
The 85 percent of patriotic Americans is making its voice heard.
We need to lift every voice and sing our real national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
“Everyone hating on the flag and (saying that) ‘America’s awful, rotten, racist’—that’s just not where most people are. I don’t care what they’re teaching in the schools. That’s not what most people want to heal,” Ingraham told Hannity.
But she couldn’t get her mind off proud, patriotic people singing their national anthem.
“That’s America,” she said. “That is awesome.”
America is awesome, too. It’s time all Americans say so — and sing so — wherever they are.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”