Thread by @shadihamid

My latest for @WCrowdsLive on the striking decline in national pride and to what extent we should be worried. The number of Democrats who say they are "extremely proud" to be American dropped from 65 percent in 2003 to 24 percent last year. 1/x

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Last week, Biden's ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said a number of things that were unusual for a senior official responsible for representing the US on the world stage. It is one thing to attack what we do; it is another thing to attack what America is. 2/x

What we're witnessing today is a precipitous drop on two important measures. I have written about religious decline elsewhere. But if that coincides (similarly along partisan lines) with a decline in national pride, then it becomes of even greater concern. 3/x

Without Christianity and without a shared pride in America, what do we fall back on? Since we are an ideological state, rather than a "normal" one, the question of how we view the founding becomes more important. 4/x

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