Myles Parks

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

I imagine if you go to No King's protests or if you went to other protests, which I did, you know, Women's Marches, Occupy, you could find people who would say, yes, I'm patriotic.

Yes, I love my country.

And also,

There's plenty of stuff wrong with it.

It's kind of the – I'm going to paraphrase James Baldwin here, but it's that quote he had of, I love America and that's why I feel the right to criticize her.

I think that you see a bit more of that attitude on the left than on the right.

And one more thing is that this isn't new.

In 2012, you think about how Republicans criticized Obama for going on a quote-unquote apology tour when he went around the world and talked to other leaders.

You've long seen this divide over how we think of and tell America's story.

And just to build on this, I have been working on this project called Swing Shift, where I talk to

voters from swing states who have voted for both parties.

So everyone who I spoke to for this project has voted for President Trump at some point along the way, many of them in the most recent election.

And I asked them the same question.

Are you proud to be an American?

And I think that the result came back both yes and with nuance.

Yes, I am and always have been proud to be an American.

I would still say yes here, but with some slight embarrassment.

That was Jason, Wally, Gerald, Teresa and Evan.

And NPR is only using their first name so that they can speak freely about politics in these polarized times.

And I think that you hear that.

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