Ten governors boycotted the 250th-anniversary celebration of American independence on the National Mall — and working-class citizens drove hundreds of miles on their own dime to fill the empty booths rather than let Marxists win another battlefield in the war for the republic's memory.
President Trump used the Mount Rushmore celebration to name the threat plainly: "You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both," as HotAir reported. The mainstream press ridiculed him for it, which tells you everything about whose side they're on. The same press that spent years calling concerns about Marxist infiltration a conspiracy is now watching those same Marxists control the cultural institutions — and defending them for it.
The White House backed up Trump's rhetoric with an official report slamming the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History for refusing to "celebrate the Nation and its history," according to HotAir, and instead presenting America's story as one of "regret, tragedy and shame." This is the institutional rot in plain view: a publicly funded museum, built to house the artifacts of American greatness, repurposed as a prop in a Marxist project to convince the next generation their country was never worth defending.
Then came the governors. Ten of them — most, as HotAir noted, suffering from Trump derangement syndrome — refused to outfit their state's booth on the National Mall. Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson and Lt. Gov. Denny Heck claimed budget constraints. Radio host Ari Hoffman wasn't buying it: "They claimed they didn't have a booth for budget reasons, but they spent $5 million on trans surgeries for convicted felons," he told HotAir. So Hoffman drove down from Seattle and handed out American flags and copies of the Constitution.
Donna Festinger, a retired teacher from Greenfield, Massachusetts, drove nine hours with 300 miniature maple syrup bottles. When Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont boycotted, citizens printed portraits of Constitution signers Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth, and William Samuel Johnson, plus war hero Nathan Hale, and filled the booth themselves. State lawmakers Rob Sampson and Gale Mastrofrancesco showed up the next day to man it.
This is the fault line. On one side: institutional Marxists who control museums, universities, and governor's mansions, working to sever Americans from their past. On the other: ordinary people who understand that a nation stripped of its heroes cannot defend its future. Every statue toppled, every founder smeared, every curriculum rewritten is a battlefield loss. The question is whether the people who built this country will keep showing up — or whether they'll eventually decide that the republic isn't worth the nine-hour drive.
