Patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent.
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Those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest.
The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.
Hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants arrived with stomachs aching from a famine manufactured by imperial cruelty.
Today, President Donald Trump disclosed that the Trump family crypto ventures generated the vast majority of his income in the first year of his presidency.
We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.
At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest.
The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional, because here nothing is fixed into place.
You got to do what you got to do to get s--- done, right?
I didn’t want to be sweet with Hegseth, okay, I didn’t.
I’m just really fearful for the United States.
I want to punch him in the f---ing face. OK? Yes. I'm serious… Because the phrase actually haunts me today.
We are fully prepared, there isn't anything to share beyond that.
But patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws.
And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum.
Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest.
American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free.