Hey Democrats, this isn’t good. I love this country, and I’m super proud to be an American, no matter who’s in the White House. I’m proud to be an American even tho we have a fascist in the White House. Hey Dems, if you wanna win, you better stop this unpatriotic shit. Now.👇 pic.twitter.com/d7aeVWekzA
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 5, 2026
It's clear only that Republicans feel more of what they believe is "pride" than do Democrats. It's a little difficult to understand when Republicans are led by, and idolize, a guy who in the first minutes of his first presidential term, targeted "American carnage" and whose words since reflect that view of this country. America as "rigged, corrupt, and evil" (10/22) and its people as "bloated, fat, and disgusting" (2/25). In between, presidential candidate Trump
publicly urged Republicans to oppose a bipartisan border and immigration bill in early 2024, framing its passage as a political win for Democrats and inviting blame if it failed; multiple contemporaneous reports cite his speeches and social‑media posts urging GOP lawmakers to reject the deal […
News reporting from February 2024 documents that Mr. Trump used public remarks and social posts to tell Republicans not to support the bipartisan border bill, describing the legislation as a “great gift to the Democrats” and a “Death Wish for The Republican Party,” and urging GOP senators to oppose it so he could run on immigration in 2024, which led to Republican opposition and the bill’s collapse. These accounts record both direct public statements—remarks at rallies and posts on his platform—and the observed voting behavior of GOP lawmakers who rejected the measure after his pronouncements. The contemporaneous narrative frames the instruction as strategically motivated: Trump presented opposition to the bill as a campaign asset designed to keep border policy a central 2024 talking point, and he later publicly celebrated the bill’s failure, saying “I think it’s dead!”. The coverage treats his comments as influential on legislative outcomes, citing both public appeals and reported private directives that aligned GOP votes with his position.
Donald believed that President Biden's bill would help secure the border, hence national security. Nonetheless, for political advantage, he urged GOP members of Congress to oppose the legislation, thus dooming it.
Just kidding- the idea that it would help the USA was a bonus, the cherry on top. Democrats and the media pretend that the one issue which doomed Kamala Harris was inflation, yet immigration- Biden's inability or unwillingness to seal the border- played roughly an equal role.
Democrats, for whatever reason(s), have chosen for years to ignore Donald Trump's evident disdain for this nation, and the media therefore has, also. Casting Democrats as the doom and gloom party and Republicans as the party of patriots is a long and fruitful tactic of the GOP, from at least the "Democrats always blame America first" of 1984.
So in June someone at Gallup must have come up with the idea of asking respondents whether they are "extremely" or "very" "proud to be an American". The polling organizatio then summarized the results as "Democrat's Pride Swings with the President- Republicans' Doesn't."
The results, however, swing with how the respondents characterize "proud" because Gallup chose not to define or clarify the term. Being proud is to have pride, "a feeling of pleasure and satisfactaction that you get because you or people connected with you have done or got something good."
So, this: Republicans may typically be proud of their country because they believe that they themselves (or their children or parents) are responsible for the greatness of the country. Democrats may- and probably- more often attribute the country's greatness to others- soldiers, health care or day careworkers, scientists or engineers doing important work for the nation, or others acting in the public interest.
That's only speculation, of course, but reasonable, and more than Gallup chose to do. Similarly, the latter could have followed up with the obvious question as to what makes the individual extremely or very proud to be an American. In December, 2024 72% of Republicans supported President-elect Trump "pardoning those who forced their way into the Capitol," an attempted coup. That could have been a clue.
The reasons individuals would have cited probably would have been enlightening. At the Great American State Fair celebration of King Donald in Washington, D.C.
Crowds were building in the area several hours before the evacuation. Tina Hale, 58, of Cohoes, New York, watched three of her grandchildren children dip their hands into a pool of water near a museum. Hale pointed toward the sky and urged them to look up as three military jets roared above the crowd.
"If that doesn't make you proud to be an American," she said.
Kaboom! There you have it. Proud to be an American because we're the biggest, baddest badasses on the block. No one going to mess with us! And she speaks for a lot of Republicans.
And many of them answered that poll, without Gallup asking what it means to be proud of were Steve Stills understood what Gallup, Joe Walsh, or the Republicans exploiting the survey results don't: what it is ain't exactly clear.
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