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  1. Yes, America is a creedal nation. It cracks me up to hear the hard right describe Neil Gorsuch as emitting "cuck energy" or Amy Coney Barrett a "diversity hire". What is not funny is that those same hard-right elements would rather pack the courts and legislatures with people who believe that the country is for "Heritage" Americans. Always vote out loons.

    reason.com/2026/05/09/right-wi

    #SCOTUS #conservatism #farRight #fringe #history #MAGA #NeilGorsuch #radicalRight #USConstitution #whiteNationalism

  2. A quotation from Henry Commager

    Who among American heroes could meet their [loyalty] tests, who would be cleared by their committees? Not Washington, who was a rebel. Not Jefferson, who wrote that all men are created equal and whose motto was “rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” Not Garrison, who publicly burned the Constitution; or Wendell Phillips, who spoke for the underprivileged everywhere and counted himself a philosophical anarchist; not Seward of the Higher Law or Sumner of racial equality. Not Lincoln, who admonished us to have malice toward none, charity for all; or Wilson, who warned that our flag was “a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty”; or Justice Holmes, who said that our Constitution is an experiment and that while that experiment is being made “we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death.”

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-07), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 2, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #conformity #conservatism #history #loyalty #loyaltytest #obedience #patriotism #rebellion #statusquo #unAmerican #huac #redscare

  3. A quotation from Henry Commager

    What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo

  4. A quotation from Henry Commager

    What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo

  5. A quotation from Henry Commager

    What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo

  6. A quotation from Henry Commager

    What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo

  7. A quotation from Henry Commager

    What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo