No, the flag does not belong to Trump and the GOP—and it never will

It's Flag Day. The Indy Star has a handy article about the origins of the holiday and the proper way to treat an American flag. That includes simple rules like flying it right side up, never putting any other image or text on the flag, and not wearing the flag like clothing. 

It doesn’t cover molesting the flag like it’s a blow-up doll, or using the flag as a weapon to beat police officers and smash windows. But maybe the folks who made the rules thought those things went without saying.

As Republicans (including a Supreme Court justice and his ornery wife) are celebrating this day by flying the American flag upside down, the The New York Times is ready to hand the flag over to Donald Trump to fondle as much as he wants. In a nauseating article that can’t stop gushing about how Trump is the “51st star,” the paper is just so overwhelmed by Trump hugging and kissing the flag and the patriotism of his big red tie that they declare the flag the property of just one party.

President Joe Biden doesn’t agree. In a new ad, the Biden-Harris campaign unabashedly celebrates the history and meaning of the American flag— a flag that belongs to everyone.