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   Ethics Observations On That “Proud To Be An American” Chart   
   February 26, 2026 / Jack Marshall   
      
      
   Yes, as with all polls and surveys, one should be wary of this one;   
   still, Gallup is as close to non-partisan as one can get in 2026, and   
   the results seem consistent with what we have been observing for a long   
   time.   
      
   And true, confirmation bias comes into play. However, what we saw with   
   the Democrats in Congress refusing to enthusiastically applaud the U.S.   
   Olympic champion hockey team certainly seemed significant, especially   
   since one assumed that if nothing else, the party knows its base. The   
   core Democratic base looks, sounds, and behaves as if it is hostile to   
   American values, traditions and history. With such quacking and waddling   
   going on, it would take an ingenious argument to maintain that this   
   isn’t a metaphorical duck.   
      
   I was drawn to the chart, which has been around for several months,   
   because an “X” pundit wrote, “What’s going on here?,” the threshold   
   question for all ethics inquiries. So what is going on here?   
      
   This:   
      
   Just as the nation had largely recovered from its disillusionment over   
   the Watergate scandal, Bill Clinton’s slimy “can’t keep it in his   
   pants”   
   Presidency, complete with epic public deceit (“It depends on what the   
   meaning of “is” is…”) surrendered the ground that had been recaptured   
   by   
   Ronald Reagan. Congress befouled itself by turning Clinton’s impeachment   
   trial into a joke. The devastation of the Presidency as an honored   
   institution in which the occupant always began with the good will of all   
   American was underway.   
   Beginning in the Clinton administration, the quality of members of   
   Congress took a nosedive. The Religious Right was a big part of the   
   problem, along with a terrible crop of GOP leaders. During the Bush 2   
   years, Americans watched revolting Congressional leaders like Newt   
   Gingrich, Tom Delay, Bill Frist, Dennis Hastert and others display   
   horrible character and incompetent leadership.   
   As I wrote (on the now lost to posterity website “The Ethics   
   Scoreboard), Democrats began tugging hard at the threats of the fabric   
   of democracy after the 2000 election, claiming the Supreme Court “stole   
   ” the Presidency for Bush. The news media, of course, neglected to point   
   out that the claim was nonsense on the facts: the election was a   
   statistical tie, with the difference in the Florida vote being less than   
   the margin of error. In such a situation, you shut up and accept the   
   result in the best interests of the nation, as Tilden, Cleveland, and   
   Nixon had done before. The Democrats shattered this “democratic norm,”   
   and, as I predicted, that thread they kept pulling started to unravel   
   public trust in our institutions. Democracy is a government system that   
   is based on trust.   
   The decision to invade Iraq based on a perfect storm of Saddam’s   
   perfidy, U.N. corruption, intelligence failures and neo-con passion was   
   (and is) presented to the public by the news media and Democrats (who   
   knew better) as Bush 2 “lying” to get us into a war. Then the war was   
   botched (though it didn’t have to be that way).   
   John Kerry, a lifetime political grifter (who ran for Senate with a   
   shamrock as his symbol in Irish-stuffed Massachusetts even though he   
   wasn’t Irish) continued the stolen election tactic in 2004 when he lost   
   an election he deserved to lose almost as much as Kama Harris would in   
   2024. Again, the news media made the public think there was validity to   
   his claims. There weren’t.   
   Barack Obama’s election should have given impetus to American bipartisan   
   pride, but instead he used divisiveness and the denigration of his own   
   country to have the opposite effect, in part because it shielded him   
   from accountability for a disastrous eight years. His wife actually said   
   that Obama’s election was the first time she ever was proud of her own   
   country. The news media and popular culture pronounced Obama beyond   
   criticism, and along with Obama embedded the narrative that American law   
   enforcement was hopelessly racist. The deaths of Trayvon Martin, Mike   
   Brown and later, George Floyd were weaponized for political gain, public   
   trust in law enforcement and the nation’s culture being collateral damage.   
   “Critical Race Theory” wormed its way into school curricula, so an   
   entire generation was indoctrinated into the absurd belief that the   
   United States had progressed hardly at all since Jim Crow in its quest   
   for equal opportunity and the elimination of racial prejudice.   
   Democrats, again, did this deliberately to cement a larger voting bloc,   
   and if it destroyed the public trust, c’est le vie!   
   Democrats were so certain that they were on the way to permanent   
   domination that they nominated established Ethics Villain Hillary   
   Clinton as their candidate for President in 2016. By a strange (and   
   lucky) twist of fate, aided by her own epic corruption (the secret   
   server) and a campaign even worse than Kerry’s or Al Gore’s, Donald   
   Trump, falsely framed by the media as a “reality TV star,” became the   
   fifth U.S. President elected without winning the popular vote. Shocked   
   out of their minds and angry at the world, Democrats launched an attack   
   on the Constitution itself. Hillary Clinton, with the help of Obama,   
   promoted “resistance” to an elected President, something that had not   
   occurred since the Civil War. The election itself was illegitimate, she   
   suggested and the Axis of Unethical Conduct (the “resistance,”   
   Democrats, and the progressive media) insisted. Then the Axis set out to   
   make it impossible for the new President to govern. It manufactured the   
   Russian collusion scandal. The Justice Department, the FBI and the   
   judiciary proved themselves incompetent at best and corrupt at worst.   
   The Democrat-controlled House voted for two partisan impeachments,   
   neither backed by sufficient evidence or fair hearings. This shattered   
   another “democratic norm.” Speaker Nancy Pelosi descended into personal   
   denigration of the President, even tearing up his “State of the Union”   
   speech on TV in open contempt. Democrats had been so programmed to   
   detest President Trump at this point that this didn’t even register as   
   uncivil, divisive, unethical conduct.   
   President Trump, spoke, tweeted and behaved more crudely and   
   unprofessionally than any President in history, permanently degrading   
      
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