Zeeshan Aleem is a writer and editor for MSNBC Daily. Previously, he worked at Vox, HuffPost and Politico, and he has also been published in, among other places, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and The Intercept. You can sign up for his free politics newsletter here.
Normally I observe the arrival of Flag Day on my calendar with complete indifference. This year was different. No, I haven’t suddenly embraced vexillology — the study of flags — as a hobby. But I have been struck by a newly conspicuous symbol on the right: the upside-down American flag. After former President Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records, a number of his supporters posted upside-down flags on social media, including Georgia GOP Rep.
And yet even in that same historical moment, one could see how the flag provided ripe terrain for contesting the meaning of America. Ted Kaye, secretary of the North American Vexillological Association, noted that during one anti-Vietnam War parade in New York, a group of construction workers seized a flag from the protesters and said they didn’t deserve to claim the American flag.
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