He’s likely banking that the message speaks to conservatives’ broader concerns about so-called cancel culture.
President Donald Trump is fighting to retain people’s right to fly the Confederate battle flag — but many of his own supporters and government have already turned in their swords.
It doesn’t seem, however, that the Confederate flag is anywhere near the top of the list for Trump allies warning of the left’s attempts to erase American culture. Few of Trump’s most avid boosters were even willing to talk about the issue. According to a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday, the majority of Americans, 56 percent, responded that they viewed the Confederate flag as a symbol of racism, compared to 35 percent who view it as a symbol of Southern heritage. Even those in Southern states aren’t as hot on the Confederacy these days — 55 percent of respondents from the South saw the flag as a racist symbol, while 35 percent did not.
Trump himself, however, doesn’t have a long history of touting love for the Confederate flag. In 2015, Trump said he thought then-South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley should remove the flag from the state capitol and put it in a museum. But with his reelection on the line, Trump is recontextualizing his view on the flag in a culture war-friendly manner, hoping to speak to his Republican base.
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