Mike Johnson Understands Nothing About the United States of America

I spent the afternoon watching MSNBC and CNN live reports on other rallies around the country, intermingled with some college football and one Modern Family episode with my daughter (that Cam, what a riot!). At one point in the late afternoon, my daughter mischievously switched it to Fox News, as she is wont to do. And there was the chyron, making reference, still, to the “Hate America Rallies.”

I know this is naïve of me, but I really couldn’t believe it. It was one thing to distort the intent and nature of these rallies in the run-up to them by saying they were for violent terrorists who despise the United States of America. I mean, it was disgusting, and it was 100 percent propaganda, but that’s Fox, projecting onto a blank canvas.

But by late afternoon Saturday, the events had happened; the smaller ones like mine finished in the early afternoon, and the larger ones and the ones out West were just wrapping up. There was no violence at all. Seven million people attended. There were American flags everywhere. The rallies were the very definition of patriotism: People who love their country and want to do what they can to save it from tyranny.