{"id":496501,"date":"2021-05-11T13:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496501"},"modified":"2021-05-11T13:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:51:05","slug":"chuck-todd-agrees-democrats-and-republicans-becoming-patriots-and-traitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chuck-todd-agrees-democrats-and-republicans-becoming-patriots-and-traitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Todd agrees Democrats and Republicans becoming \u2018patriots and traitors\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fchuck-todd-agrees-democrats-and-republicans-becoming-patriots-and-traitors%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=496501&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1207227272.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Ignoring years of data indicating the Republicans have higher levels of patriotism than Democrats, Chuck Todd agreed that the GOP is becoming the party of \u201ctraitors\u201d and that the GOP\u2019s natural opponents, the Democratic Party, is quickly coming to represent the nation\u2019s last remaining \u201cpatriots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The host of NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d found himself repeating the opinion of a Democratic pollster, who likened divisions within the modern-day Republican Party between Liz Cheney and supporters of Donald Trump to the eve of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t often disagree with President Biden. But President Biden said there\u2019s a \u2026 mini-Civil War going on in the Republican Party,\u201d said Cornell Belcher, Todd\u2019s guest on Sunday\u2019s program. \u201cChuck, the Civil War is over, and the conservatives have lost \u2014 and they\u2019ve \u2026 lost to tribalists who want to promote the Big Lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say the Big Lie of 2020 election fraud \u201cundermines democracy\u201d by suggesting that we \u201cthrow out the will of the American people. And it\u2019s fomenting \u2026 attacks on our government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now \u2026 our greatest national security threats are actually from this fomenting of these lies,\u201d said Belcher, who <a href=\"https:\/\/iop.harvard.edu\/fellows\/cornell-belcher\">worked<\/a> for the Democratic National Committee under Howard Dean before serving two stints on Barack Obama\u2019s presidential campaigns and becoming a fellow at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School of Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s something bigger at stake here than just partisanship. You know, with all this talk about Civil War, I think back. You know, Ulysses S. Grant at the start of the Civil War said, \u2018There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots.\u2019 I\u2019m afraid, Chuck, that we\u2019re, we\u2019re increasingly coming back to that time,\u201d Belcher concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Todd responded with a clipped, \u201cI \u2014 I fear, Cornell, that myself.\u201d The host did not have time to elaborate on his views, because he had to break for a commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually every word spoken during that segment is not just erroneous \u2014 it\u2019s the opposite of the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Before a combination of left-wing Democrats and Republicans repurposed the phrase, the \u201cBig Lie\u201d had historically been identified with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot\">Nazi Party\u2019s propaganda<\/a> techniques. Adolf Hitler mentioned the method in Mein Kampf, although he ascribed its practice to the Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that Democrats are the party of super-patriots, while Republicans are a hive of Civil War-era rebels turns 161 years of history on its head. Ulysses S. Grant, the second Republican president, helped put down the Confederate rebellion for the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. But the patriotism gap between the two parties endures.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, 67% of Republicans said they were \u201cextremely proud\u201d to be American, as compared with just 24% of Democrats \u2014 rebounding from a record-low 22% the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The year 2019 \u201csaw\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/259841\/american-pride-hits-new-low-few-proud-political-system.aspx\">a record 54-point gap<\/a>\u00a0in the percentages of Republicans and Democrats who were extremely proud to be Americans,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/312644\/national-pride-falls-record-low.aspx\">according<\/a> to Gallup. \u201cThe gap is narrower [in 2020] \u2014 43 points \u2014 because of the decline in Republican pride\u201d during the intervening year.<\/p>\n<p>Self-identified liberals are almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/split-on-patriotism-65-conservatives-proud-to-be-american-just-37-liberals-agree\">four times as likely<\/a> as conservatives to say they would like to live in another country (18% of liberals vs. 5% of conservatives), according to the 2017 report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eartotheground.us\/\">produced<\/a> by the Ear to the Ground Listening Project.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have found even modest and intermittent exposure to patriotic ideas make young people more likely to join the GOP when they grow up. A 2012 Harvard study <a href=\"https:\/\/epod.cid.harvard.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2018-02\/shaping_the_nation-_the_effect_of_fourth_of_july_on_political_preferences_and_behavior_in_the_united_states.pdf\">found<\/a> that children who witness \u201cFourth of July celebrations\u201d are more likely to vote \u2014 and to vote Republican \u2014 than those who did not attend patriotic events in childhood. \u201cThere is no impact on the likelihood of identifying with or voting for the Democrats, indicating that the Fourth of July moves preferences to the right,\u201d the researchers concluded.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring years of data indicating the Republicans have higher levels of patriotism than Democrats, Chuck Todd agreed that the GOP is becoming the party of \u201ctraitors\u201d and that the GOP\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277807,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1207227272.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Chuck Todd agrees Democrats and Republicans becoming \u2018patriots and traitors\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1207227272.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Chuck Todd agrees Democrats and Republicans becoming \u2018patriots and traitors\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496501","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}