With his wife (in green dress) and throngs of supporters enjoying fireworks that were far bigger than Joe Biden’s, as they explode around the Washington Monument

Trump Calls For “Patriotic Education”

That was a doozy the President slipped in to his nomination acceptance speech, which was the last act to the Republican National Convention.

The Republican National Convention wraps with redoubled efforts on the part of the President and his cohorts to label Joe Biden as “weak” and someone who “takes a knee”, yet at the same time, Biden’s the biggest threat to this country ever. Trump: “if given the chance he will be the destroyer of American greatness.”. And Trump to scream that he’s the outsider, while standing in the South Lawn of the White House, proclaiming it not merely a “house”, but his “home”.

So maybe the quick mention of “Patriotic Education” in our schools seems like small potatoes against that backdrop. Trump has danced around that concept before. In fact, way back at the beginning of the week, when the Republican Party neglected to put out a platform, saying they were good with whatever Trump supports, and he put out a bullet pointed list of second term priorities, which included things like “Return to Normal”, it was in there, but a little different. “Teach American exceptionalism” was how the concept was phrased then.

So in the short span of 4 days it’s traveled from that to “Patriotic Education”. A term and a system…