I’d been driving for a week, since the first night of the January 6 congressional hearings, listening to them on the radio as I counted the flags. Not the American ones but the Trump ones. Trump 2024, two years ahead of time; and the red, white, and blue of the Confederacy, the yellow Don’t-Tread-on-Me Gadsden. There are so many now. And there’s a new folk art in the land: hand-painted “Fuck Biden” placards, homemade “Let’s Go Brandon” billboards and homespun “Never Forget Benghazi” banners. The cities and towns still ripple with rainbow pride, and their numbers are greater, but on many
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