MSNBC Claims Democrats Took Back American Exceptionalism From GOP

Alex Christy | August 29, 2024
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The assembled cast of MSNBC's Morning Joe joined former Obama State Department official and former managing editor of Time magazine, Richard Stengel, on Thursday in hailing Vice President Kamala Harris for supposedly taking back the mantle of American exceptionalism from Republicans.

The basis for the segment was an article Stengel wrote for Time where he claimed that Harris’s DNC acceptance speech was “the most full-throated and sincere expression of American exceptionalism since the presidency of George W. Bush, and the most direct and unambiguous expression of that idea by a Democratic presidential candidate since John F. Kennedy.”

Co-host Jonathan Lemire claimed, “It was so striking last week in Chicago, I was there, just the flag was everywhere. The red, white, and blue was everywhere. Chants of USA were everywhere. It did really feel like Democrats who, to your point, for so long avoided that, not just reembracing it, but trying to take it back from Republicans.”

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