Kevin Robilllard is a senior political reporter for HuffPost. He previously covered the 2016 elections and transportation policy for Politico. He’s also written for TBD, Newsweek and Congressional Quarterly. He’s a graduate of the University of Maryland, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Diamondback.
is a patriot, in any conventional sense of the word. He ended his valedictory speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night with a refrain he’s delivered possibly hundreds of times since he began running for president again in 2019: “We just have to remember who we are. We’re the United States of America. And there is nothing we cannot do when we do it together.”took over as the party’s nominee.
Republicans often try to claim patriotism as exclusive to themselves, with flag-waving bordering on ostentatious even as Trump runs down the country and its citizens more often and with more ferocity than any other political figure in recent memory. Much of the schedule at the Democratic National Convention seems designed to combat the perception that Democrats and the flag-burning protesters could ever be on the same page. Party officials eagerly shared images contrasting the “USA” signs handed out to convention delegates on Monday night to the “Mass Deportation Now!” signs handed out at the Republican National Convention last month.
“I’ll tell you what: Growing up in a small town like that, you learn to take care of each other,” he said. “That family down the road — they may not think like you do, they may not pray like you do, they may not love like you do, but they’re your neighbors. And you look out for them, and they look out for you. Everybody belongs, and everybody has a responsibility to contribute.”
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