Myles Parks

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Is America's 250th birthday celebration too partisan? · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

Ninety three percent of Republicans said they're proud to be American.

compared with just 61% of independents and only 45% of Democrats.

Danielle, what do you make of those results?

Well, it's not terribly surprising, first of all, because we see on any number of metrics that there's this kind of a partisan divide, for example, on how's the economy doing?

Well,

While Trump is president or any Republican is president these days, Republicans tend to see it with rosier colored glasses than Democrats do.

So, yeah, if there were a Democratic president right now, I do believe that Democrats would maybe be a little more proud and Republicans maybe less.

But that all said, I think there's also something much deeper going on here, which is that – and I'm speaking very broadly here – traditional symbols of patriotism exist.

in the U.S., especially in recent decades, maybe post 9-11 especially, have become right wing coded.

You drive through Trump country or red states, rural areas, you're going to see more flags, God bless the USA, support the troops.

That's a very particular expression of patriotism.

You're going to see a lot more of that overt expression of patriotism than maybe you'll see in a more left leaning part of the country.

Now,

The wrinkle here is that it's not that Democrats and leftists aren't patriotic, but it's that the two parties seem to have very, very different thoughts about how to express patriotism, especially right now.

I mean, on the right, especially with Trump as president, you have a lot –

less complicated proclamations.

It's just, you know, I'm proud to be an American.

And then you play the Lee Greenwood song.

On the Democratic side, expressions of patriotism seem to have more criticism.

They reckon with America's very imperfect past and present.

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