{"id":2227410,"date":"2024-04-22T16:33:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-media-scream-historian-meacham-says-patriotism-demands-biden-win\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T16:34:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:34:59","slug":"liberal-media-scream-historian-meacham-says-patriotism-demands-biden-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-media-scream-historian-meacham-says-patriotism-demands-biden-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Media Outcry: Historian Meacham Insists Biden Victory Is Essential for Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberal-media-scream-historian-meacham-says-patriotism-demands-biden-win%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2227410&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses historian Jon Meacham&#8217;s views on\u2062 patriotism and the choice between Biden and Trump. Meacham\u2062 emphasizes allegiance to democratic ideals over nationalism and criticizes\u2063 Trump&#8217;s \u2062approach. He argues that supporting Biden aligns with upholding the constitutional order, contrasting it \u200dwith Trump&#8217;s actions. Meacham&#8217;s stance underscores the moral dimension of the \u2062political decision. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-house-democrat-demands-vote-on-gun-control-legislation-immediately-2\/\" title=\"Top House Democrat Demands Vote on Gun Control Legislation \u201cImmediately\u201d\">article delves<\/a> into historian Jon Meacham&#8217;s perspective on patriotism and the Biden versus Trump dilemma. Meacham highlights the\u200d importance \u200dof prioritizing \u2064democratic principles over nationalism and \u2062condemns Trump&#8217;s strategies. He advocates for \u200bbacking Biden as a means to safeguard the constitutional framework, \u2062drawing a distinct contrast with Trump&#8217;s governance. Meacham&#8217;s viewpoint accentuates the ethical aspect of making \u2063political choices.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/2957968\/liberal-media-scream-joy-reid-wants-prison-not-airport-named-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Liberal Media Scream<\/a> is a rare five-screamer featuring a liberal journalist turned \u201chistorian\u201d and biographer claiming that voter patriotism demands reelecting President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> over former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump.\">Donald Trump.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/1315947\/liberal-media-scream-msnbc-historian-declares-gop-hopefuls-insurrectionists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Jon Meacham,<\/a> the former top editor of <em>Newsweek, <\/em>said on HBO\u2019s <em>Real Time with Bill Maher, <\/em>\u201cPatriotism is allegiance to an idea. It\u2019s not just an allegiance to your own kind. That\u2019s nationalism. Trump is a nationalist. President Biden is a patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talking more like an East Coast elitist than a Tennessee native, the liberal analyst added with seriousness, \u201cI\u2019m lucky in that I don\u2019t have particular policy passions, particular issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he included a condescending little jab at his home state. \u201cI want the constitutional order to continue to unfold, and President Biden is devoted to that constitutional order. Donald Trump is self-evidently not. And I would say to my Republican friends \u2014\u00a0and I live in Tennessee, so that\u2019s redundant \u2014 that it is, in fact, a moral question.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p data-video_id=\"Kj6ZcyFS8rM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jon Meacham: \u2018There\u2019s a Patriotic Duty to Support Biden Against Trump\u2019\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kj6ZcyFS8rM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Here is Meacham, on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kj6ZcyFS8rM\" title>Real Time with Bill Maher,<\/a> <\/em>reacting to the news that former Attorney General William Barr (a Trump critic) will vote for his former boss:<\/p>\n<p><strong>JON MEACHAM<\/strong>: <em>What Barr is doing, and what so many \u2014 I sometimes think of them as the Peter Millar Republicans, right, these are Republicans who are not full MAGA people, they\u2019re men\u2019s grill types who don\u2019t want Democrats picking judges or setting tax rates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They talked themselves into this twice. In \u201916 and in \u201920. And then came December and January of 2020 and 2021, and, at that point, I believe, and I say this with care, that it is become evident, to me, anyway, that there is a patriotic duty to support President Biden against Donald Trump for this reason: Patriotism is allegiance to an idea. It\u2019s not just an allegiance to your own kind. That\u2019s nationalism. Trump is a nationalist. President Biden is a patriot, and I\u2019m lucky in that I don\u2019t have particular policy passions, particular issues. I want the constitutional order to continue to unfold, and President Biden is devoted to that constitutional order. Donald Trump is self-evidently not. And I would say to my Republican friends \u2014 and I live in Tennessee, so that\u2019s redundant \u2014 that it is, in fact, a moral question\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To me, the interesting thing about the Republican Party is if you are, in fact, going to put partisanship as your central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-toomey-democrat-biden-administration-covid-bill-is-purely-partisan\/\" title=\"Sen. Toomey: Democrat, Biden administration COVID bill is purely partisan\">organizing principle<\/a>, if reflexive partisanship is the most important thing \u2014 I would argue that you need to go back and read George Washington\u2019s farewell address. You need to read the founders that otherwise, you know, they love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You know, they love the founders when they can move it around to agree with them. It\u2019s very clear that if party spirit became the organizing principle, that, that was going to be fatal to the Constitution, and it\u2019s very interesting when Barr said it\u2019s \u201csuicide.\u201d The idea that President Biden is leading us to national suicide. I\u2019m not sure what he\u2019s talking about, but Lincoln used that image in his first major speech in the 1830s. He said if we ever fall, it\u2019s not going to be from a foreign foe: It\u2019s going to be from someone internally rising up and mastering those passions. And those passions about partisanship, that\u2019s what\u2019s ruining us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/staff\/brent-baker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Brent Baker,<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">vice president<\/a> of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: \u201cCould Meacham be any more condescending and elitist? So much for the pretense of being a journalist and not a partisan activist. His take: I\u2019ve decided which candidate is bad for America, so if you vote for that one, you are not only not a patriot, but you will bring about the destruction of the nation. And he wonders why his neighbors in Tennessee don\u2019t appreciate him for denouncing them as on \u2018the wrong side\u2019 of \u2018a moral question.\u2019 I bet they have a lot more respect for his views than he does for theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Rating:<\/span> <em><strong>FIVE<\/strong> out of <strong>FIVE SCREAMS.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s Liberal Media Scream, a prominent liberal journalist-turned-&#8220;historian&#8221; insists on reelecting President Joe Biden for voter patriotism. Jon Meacham, ex-Newsweek editor, asserts on HBO&#8217;s Real Time with Bill Maher, &#8220;Patriotism is allegiance to an idea.&#8221; He contends that supporting Biden over Trump is crucial for patriotic duty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2227411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP22245047074228-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP22245047074228-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2227411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}