re: #165 Florida Panhandler

Eagerly awaiting the story told by Trump about the Pledge of Allegiance, written by a late 1800’s Socialist preacher to foster a sense of communal identity in a country fractured by post-Civil War politics and racism.

Somehow they never talk about the Socialist beginnings of much of the national character enacted over the years.

there’s a lot of dangerous nationalism and populism in American history. We sort of gloss over a lot of it now because so much of it has developed into traditions that have little to do with their origins.