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First there’s his zeal for restricting LGBT rights—letting states ban transgender people from using the bathroom of their gender identity, opposing the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, his promise to appoint judges to the Supreme Court who will reverse the ruling, or his choice of one of America’s most rabidly anti-gay politicians as his vice president. Trump has hinted at support for letting businesses and individuals discriminate against LGBT people, as blogger Andy Towle notes. At the Republican National Convention, he implicitly endorsed an anti-gay GOP platform. Those collective bonds were fraying before Trump hit the scene. To some on the left, for instance, the flag became a stand-in for every terrible act that had been done, through history, on the nation’s behalf. But the partisan divisions grew worse during the Trump administration. Gaskins points to polls that show that civic pride dropped precipitously among Democrats after Trump took office. A YouGov poll from 2018 showed a 26 percentage-point gap between Republicans and Democrats when asked whether they felt patriotic. A 2018 Pew poll found that Republicans were twice as likely as Democrats to believe it’s important to fly the American flag. In the video, he goes up to a group wearing orange hats and says, “They wanna know what the orange hats stand for.”
In 2019, Trump held up military aid to Ukraine in an attempt to get dirt on Biden, resulting in the first of two impeachments. When Carr was in the eleventh grade, in Georgia, he dropped out of school and ran away: “I didn’t like home life. I had four sisters—I couldn’t get along with anybody.” Enlisting in the Army straightened him out. “If I hadn’t went into the Army I’d probably be in a chain gang somewhere—in prison or something—because I was mean.” President Donald Trump said Monday that he’d support laws criminalizing flag burning, saying in a call with governors that it’s time for the Supreme Court to take up the issue again as nationwide protests have intensified over the death of George Floyd. The Post reported that Trump also praised Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, for having “total control” of his country. Flags, signs and symbols of racist, white supremacist and extremist groups were displayed along with Trump 2020 banners and American flags at Wednesday’s riot at the US Capitol.QAnon is the latest great American conspiracy theory. Its key beliefs: a secret cabal “controls global governments”, the 2020 election was stolen, Hollywood and liberal elites crave the blood of children in a bid to sustain their youth. You read that right. QAnon is rife with stories of “mole children”, stashed away in caves for the delectation of the rich and powerful.
Among the flags hoisted at the Capitol by insurrectionists, some were expected: the stars and bars of the Confederate battle flag; the defiant “Don’t Tread On Me” exhortation of the Gadsen flag , revived in the 2000s by the Tea Party. Detailed and impeccably researched, Trust the Plan is essentially a crash course on a volatile and vocal segment of the US population. It is unlikely Sommer will win hearts and minds. Trust the Plan is essentially written for blue (Democratic) America. But it is eye-opening, nonetheless.
A post-election protest in Harrisburg, Pennslvania, on Nov. 5 includes a display of the Gadsden flag. Spencer Platt/Getty Images George Soros and Hillary Clinton, familiar boogeymen to the right, feature in QAnon lore. One early internet post from “Q”, the anonymous instigator of the conspiracy, read: “Hillary Clinton will be arrested between 7.45am-8.30am EST on Monday – the morning on 30 October 2017.”
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