The brilliance shown by the Harris campaign in making Freedom the major theme of her speeches and materials is astonishing and long overdue.
In 2017, when MAGA first took over our country and warped its values and symbols, I participated in a number of protests against the new president and his followers making certain that when I did, whenever I carried a flag that said “RESIST” or a sign calling out people for what they were, I also carried an American flag—because I was not willing to cede one inch of symbolism or patriotism to those vile manipulators and treasonweasels.
When my flags shot up simultaneously in the video on the news desk’s monitor (0:07 second mark) during this CBS Chicago coverage of the March for Truth in June 2017, I was unintentionally echoing the premise of a book written by George Layoff a decade earlier. Why we didn’t all get on this sooner, I don’t know, but we’re all on it now. Whose freedom? OUR freedom. Every last one of us.
