Politics

Long Before Donald Trump Demanded NFL Players Stop Kneeling, Patriotism for Profit Began With the Pledge of Allegiance

‘Simple Americanism’

The new pledge was commissioned by a man who’d made a fortune selling pricey flags to public-school children.

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