ROOKE: America’s Birthday Balloon Is Flying Away. Reality TV Might Be Only Way To Get It Back

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Welcome back to Good Life, a newsletter about navigating our modern culture and staying sane in the process. This week, we discuss America’s 250th birthday and why it’s so important that we don’t screw up the celebration.

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We might as well get straight into this. The celebration for America’s 250th birthday is extremely disappointing. I’ve been trying to stay as positive about it as possible because I want this to be a national unifier, something that brings the country together and makes us excited to be American again. However, last week’s debacle over artists canceling on the America 250 concert and the Trump administration’s decision to turn it into a Trump rally is concerning.

I’ve been captivated with Trump since he rode down those golden escalators. I’ve watched just about every one of his political rallies once they began livestreaming them. But even I don’t want to watch Trump talk for 90 minutes, telling the same jokes and bloviating about his administration’s supposed wins for the country.

That’s not the point of the celebration. We are supposed to be uniting the country. And whether Trump supporters like it or not, the reality is that half the country loves him and half the country wants him dead. So watching another one of his speeches isn’t going to draw large swaths of Americans from all walks of life.

It’s June 3. There isn’t much time before July 4. Still, if they act quickly, there is a way to salvage this and turn it into something that could........

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