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Patriotism is dissent: Why even the founding fathers would give Trump’s America a bad grade
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July 2, 2026
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6:23Now PlayingAs America celebrates its 250th birthday and President Trump continues to govern out of his authoritarian playbook, legal scholar Melissa Murray, who’s written an annotated guide to the Constitution, joins Symone and Eugene to discuss how patriotism is about working to make the country better. The concept, she shares, is not new -- even the men who wrote the Constitution made major changes to it four years later. At every milestone anniversary, Americans ask each other, “Are we getting it right?”
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