https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/28/the-new-patriotism/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 16:26:37 -0400<![CDATA[Throughout the campaign, Roosevelt pressed his party’s identification with the patriots of 1776. He ordered that the Democratic platform be written as a loose imitation of the Declaration of Independence, beginning and ending with paragraphs proclaiming, “We hold this truth to be self-evident.” To pick an example, the Democrats announced it was self-evident that “twelve years of Republican surrender to the dictatorship of a privileged few have been supplanted by a Democratic leadership which has returned the people themselves to the place of authority, and has revived in them new faith and restored the hope which they had almost lost.”]]>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:15:54 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/01/28/the-new-patriotism-n99655