Lib­er­al Media Scream: His­to­ri­an Meacham says ‘patri­o­tism’ demands Biden win

Liberal Media Scream: Historian Meacham says ‘patriotism’ demands Biden win

This week’s Lib­er­al Media Scream is a rare five-scream­er fea­tur­ing a lib­er­al jour­nal­ist turned “his­to­ri­an” and biog­ra­ph­er claim­ing that vot­er patri­o­tism demands reelect­ing Pres­i­dent Joe Biden over for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.
Jon Meacham, the for­mer top edi­tor of Newsweek, said on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, “Patri­o­tism is alle­giance to an idea. It’s not just an alle­giance to your own kind. That’s nation­al­ism. Trump is a nation­al­ist. Pres­i­dent Biden is a patri­ot.”
Talk­ing more like an East Coast elit­ist than a Ten­nessee native, the lib­er­al ana­lyst added with seri­ous­ness, “I’m lucky in that I don’t have par­tic­u­lar pol­i­cy pas­sions, par­tic­u­lar issues.”
And he includ­ed a con­de­scend­ing lit­tle jab at his home state. “I want the con­sti­tu­tion­al order to con­tin­ue to unfold, and Pres­i­dent Biden is devot­ed to that con­sti­tu­tion­al order. Don­ald Trump is self-evi­dent­ly not. And I would say to my Repub­li­can friends — and I live in Ten­nessee, so that’s redun­dant — that it is, in fact …