Harriet Hageman: “OK. Then if that is so, why is your agency targeting Americans who are Christians and conservatives?”

They're very backwards people. I kind of look at them like flat-Earthers. They're very backwards people in the way that they approach things.

I am, in fact, optimistic that those festivities we’ve already enjoyed are currently inspiring a new sense of purpose in our national identity.

I hope that by focusing on America’s 250th anniversary – and looking back over that history with honesty and accuracy — we will reverse these declines.

My friends on the other side of the aisle have worked mightily to weaponize our history with slavery to indict our nation as irredeemable.