One way you can appreciate that America is a free country is that the Left feels free to dump on the 250th anniversary of America's founding. The New Yorker can ask "How Problematic Is Patriotism?" Their answer is "very problematic."

MS NOW host Ali Velshi channeled this spirit on May 31. He fussed that "America has never actually fully reckoned with its racist past and its original founding sin of slavery. In one month, America will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding. Like previous anniversaries, there is a deep unease about this. I feel a deep unease about the celebrations to which I am invited to mark the 250th anniversary of our so-called democracy."

Our "so-called democracy." This is how leftists talk when their party is out of power. The Voting Rights Act has been "gutted," Velshi proclaimed, causing redistricting with "the explicit effect of taking political power away from black Americans." This complaint relies on the argument that blacks only have voting rights if they can vote other blacks into power -- and not........

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