"the president is conflating the celebration of the nation’s founding with a celebration of himself – l’état c’est moi.
...The heroes of the myth are a clutch of white men under the guiding hand of a Christian God. The villains are anyone who dares insert an inconvenient historical truth."
Simon Rosenberg
America’s 250th birthday celebration is replacing history with toxic myth | Judith Levine This year’s events will be a mélange of Trumpian egotism, Maga populism and Christian nationalism ...
This year’s events will be a mélange of Trumpian egotism, Maga populism and Christian nationalism