Yesterday’s Fourth of July celebrations were marred by the deadly coronavirus AKA CoV-2 or Covid-19 pandemic and racial unrest, prompting 74-year-old President Donald Trump to stage a dramatic event at Mt. Rushmore July 3 and fireworks spectacular July 4 at Washington, D.C.’s National Mall. But with all the festivities Trump doesn’t have a media behind him, essentially dismissing the celebrations at a time great uncertainty. Trump used his July 3 speech to venerate American history, including the many statues and monuments that have been destroyed by violent protesters thinking it’s their right to desecrate historic American monuments because it doesn’t meet today’s definitions of racial equality and justice. Gallup’s July Fourth poll showed a wide gap between Democrats and Republicans on the issue of whether they were “very proud” to be Americans.
Gallup found that only 22% of Democrats said they were “very proud” to be Americans, where 76% of Republicans said they were “very proud.” That whopping difference underscores the ubiquitous media narrative largely designed to damage Trump’s chance of winning a second term his fall. Political polling is inextricably attached to prevailing media sentiments. With the media 95% against Trump according to a Harvard University study, it’s clear that the narrative supports anything that would lead the public to believe that things have gotten much worse under his presidency. With the novel coroonvirus hitting 2,969,936 cases and 132,510 deaths in the U.S., there’s not much to cheer about. Democrats and the media have used the virus to attack Trump’s handling of the nationwide pandemic, often accusing Trump of ignoring basic safety measures like wearing masks.
When you add to the coronavirus the simultaneously tanking of the U.S. economy, there’s not much to celebrate this Fourth of July, especially with the spate of police brutality and murders of black people prompting nationwide protests and racial unrest. Because Democrats and the media want to use current events to get rid of Trump in November, it’s difficult to tell whether groups like Black Lives Matter had ridden a political storm to launch their nationwide protests. Gallup’s poll couldn’t account for why Democrats and Republicans feel so differently about being “very proud” to be an American, other than attribute it to politics. Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick said Fourth of July is not his holiday, meaning the United States does not represent his interests. So with the media lending support to Kaepernick’s view, it’s no wonder there’s a loss of American pride.
Black Lives Matter’s New York leader Hawk Newsome said June 26 if BLM doesn’t get what it wants, then it will burn down the system, though he qualified his remarks saying he wouldn’t say whether he was speaking literally or figuratively. When Trump said in his July 3 speech that he wouldn’t let the “cancel culture” erase 244 years of American history since the Declaration of Independence, the media calls it hate speech. Whatever the media’s preference in November, clearly former Vice President Joe Biden, their messaging has consequences, especially if they back BLM’s contention that American is “systemically” racist. Messaging like that give agitators and anarchists all the backing they need to deface and torch historic U.S. monuments, statues and coveted places, like Mt. Rushmore. BLM defines racism today as anyone white, not by prejudicial actions.
When you look at the media narrative about the coronavirus, they’ve essentially blamed Trump for mismanagement, leading to the ongoing second wave outbreaks continuing to watch cases and deaths go up. Blaming Trump fits the Democrats campaign narrative that seeks to oust him from office Nov. 3. But blaming Trump’s mismanagement of the virus suggests that Democrats led by Biden would have done things differently. It’s one think to play politics in an Election Year with the coronvirus pandemic, still another to mislead the public into thinking they’d be better off with someone else at the helm. There’s zero evidence that anyone dealing with the coronviurs could have done any better. Shutting down the economy indefinitely with endless “shelter in place” orders would create more collateral damage of unemployment, poverty, homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, suicide and anarchy.
Trump’s July 3 speech was not about white supremacy or racism it was about U.S. history and the rule of law. No matter how flawed the U.S. government in implementing its sacred documents, it does a lot better than any other country on the planet. It’s not too much to ask citizens to obey laws, certainly not take the law into their own hands. Groups like Black Lives Matter derive their model from the 1960s Black Panthers who used violence and other coercive means to advance the agenda of black rights. If the media promotes Trump’s rhetoric as racist, it empowers radical groups that threaten to “burn down the system” if they don’t get their way. No organized society can be coerced by groups that threat violence as a means of exacting concessions on matters of law and public policy. “Our past is not a burden to be cast away,” Trump said, not acquiescing to an angry mob.
