“It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth whether about the president or anyone else,” said President Theodore Roosevelt in 1918.
“Broadly put, nationalism is about allegiance to one’s own kind; patriotism is allegiance to a creed,” said Jon Meacham, a presidential historian. “The Age of Trump — and that is what historians will have to call this — is a nationalistic one.”
“His [Trump's] version of patriotism is rooted in his narcissism,” said Chad Williams, a historian and professor of African American and Black diaspora studies at Boston University. “It’s self-aggrandizing on the one hand, but it’s also deeply ahistorical, and I think this entire commemoration has been reflective of this.”
“He’s completely engineered the weight and the power of the executive government to tell Americans how they should conceive of their past,” said David W. Blight, a professor of American history at Yale University. (New York Times, July 9)
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