Greetings. It's Wednesday, May the 27th, 2026, and this is Denison Forum's Daily Article

podcast, authored today by cultural theologian and philosopher Dr. Jim Denison. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrator. One of the founding distinctives of Denison Ministries is that we are stridently nonpartisan.

However, there are days when my daily article is criticized by those who thought I was too

supportive of a particular politician or party and by those who thought I was too negative toward

them, and both were responding to the same article. Today, maybe one of those days.

Senator Tammy Duckworth has condemned a Memorial Day social media post by the DNC, the Democratic National Committee,

that featured the images and names of 13 soldiers killed during the military conflict with Iran.

The reason? The images were displayed under the words, remembering the Americans who

have died in Trump's war with Iran. Senator Duckworth is a Purple Heart recipient who lost her

legs and partial use of her right arm when the helicopter she was piloting was hit by an RPG

in Iraq. She said of the Post, quote,

it is incredibly distasteful to use our heroic dead for a political attack on Memorial Day.

I'm a Democrat and I condemn this post by the DNC, end quote.

After similar criticism on both sides of the aisle, the DNC deleted the lead of the post. If you're a Democrat,

right now, you want me to cite examples of Republicans committing similar acts of partisan

politicization. If you're a Republican, you want me to offer more examples of Democrats doing the

same. If you're neither, you've shrugged your shoulders, condemning both sides, and hoping I'll move

on. If only I could. It would be one thing if the bittersweet partisanship of our day were limited to

contemporary politicians and political parties, but such rancor is as old as contested elections in American

history. In 1796, supporters of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

lambasted the other side in editorials and other campaign tactics.

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