Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, in a podcast conversation with left-wing host Brian Tyler Cohen, openly floated the idea that many Democrats today seem to harbor more resentment toward America than pride in it. He pushed the point even further, asking bluntly: “When’s the last time you heard Democrats say something good about this country?”
“What did my father have? Okay, I know I’m a white guy, okay? I know, I’m not saying anything but that,” Cuomo began. “My father was not considered a white guy. He was considered an ethnic, okay? He had that other thing going.”
He added:
He was an other. And he hated it. And he hated the people who got to decide that, and who kept opportunities from him. So he was a real one, okay? But he loved the f**king country. That’s the part that you guys, in my opinion, don’t get right. I don’t believe AOC — or any of your horses — I have a hard time believing they love the country. I think they hate more about it than they love about it. And that may be unfair. But if it is unfair, it’s because of how they’ve made their own case about themselves.
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"I don't believe AOC — any of your horses — I have a hard time believing they love the country. I think they hate more about it than they love about it."
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Cohen offered some pointed resistance, however, insisting that American patriotism is mostly “performative,” even suggesting that traditions like the Pledge of Allegiance seem “foreign” to people in other countries.
Cuomo didn’t let that framing stand. He argued that Democrats have pushed so hard against patriotic symbols and national pride that the right now effectively owns them — not because the left couldn’t, but because it refused to:
Here’s my point: Why are people surprised when they see an American flag on my truck, or in front of my house? Why were the Democrats okay with that becoming a party symbol for the GOP?. You are absolutely right, and every political philosopher has only agreed with you that dissent and criticism of your government is one of the strongest forms of patriotism. I don’t even think that’s really an open question.
“What do you balance it with?” Cuomo asked. “When’s the last time you heard Democrats say something good about this country? That’s true, too. And I think it goes to your point about, hey man, you gotta play the game where it stands. I think that a real one who hates certain things that were done to them — systemic, cultural — and is fighting to change it because they believe so much in what this country can be, is, and is at her best. That’s the sweet spot. I can’t think of the last time I heard AOC say something good about the country.”
