You're listening to the On the Media Midweek podcast, I'm Michael Lohanger.

Brooke had to run out to a panel that she's going to be on this evening, so I'm reading this

intro for her.

The use of patriotism as a campaigning tool has for years been the domain of the GOP.

A Gallup poll from June shows that 60% of Republicans,

compared to 29% of Democrats, express extreme pride

in being American.

And you can see it at Donald Trump's rallies,

where he wraps himself in a flag

walking out to God bless America his crowds a sea of red white and blue.

It's not like Democrats have never employed the tactic, but this election cycle,

they've been putting patriotism front and center.

At rallies, USA, and at the DNC. I've learned something about the Democratic Party and I want to let my fellow Republicans in on the secret.

Adam Kinzinger, former Republican representative of Illinois.

The Democrats are as patriotic as us.

Heartway through Kamala Harris's speech at the DNC,

she listed a series of fundamental freedoms Americans should hold.

For example, the freedom to live safe from gun violence, the freedom to vote, and

The freedom to breathe clean air. and

the freedom to breathe clean air and drink clean water and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis.

This resonated with researcher Catherine Mason at

New York University who's been investigating the unlikely pairing of

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