But there’s a third thing here, which is — and I know this thanks to a very good piece that Michael Scherer did in The Atlantic — that this has been a real fight over control of the 250, and believe it or not, there was bipartisan agreement on how we should celebrate it.
And with Trump, it is always playing to the base. These numbers are hard to find, for sure, but as best I can tell, it appeals to about 16 percent of us, overwhelmingly male.
It’s once again going to the base, and at a moment when we could talk about the Constitution and the Declaration, and while we do argue a lot — and they’re good arguments, I think, about the meaning of the Constitution and the Declaration — we all honor them.