Well, no getting away from it, today is the Fourth of July, actually Independence Day. John Adams said about the day, “It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent” in his well known July 3rd 1776 letter to his wife Abigail.
There’s nothing wrong with a little “pomp and parade” — if used in moderation. But this year, Donald Trump and the GOP are raining on our 4th of July parade by, it seems, shredding every norm in the country, separating immigrant families and making it harder for people to vote.
So it is worth running the tweet below from David Hogg, a Parkland School shooting gun control activist up the flag pole before the “shews and bonfires” begin.
*Early voting in the party primaries has begun in advance of the primary polling date of August 14.