Chris Coons: President Is Not the State

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COONS: "The President once again is making a simple but scary mistake here. He is not the state. Cheering for our president is not the same as being a patriotic and loyal American. In fact, there’s this thing called the First Amendment in the Constitution that protects right of all of us as citizens to either cheer and applaud the President when we agree with him or to not applaud when we have differing priorities. He simply doesn’t get that. He’s not above the law and he’s not the state. And failure to cheer him when he thinks we should is not only not treasonous, some of us would argue it’s patriotic.”