The Unique Fourth

Today is July 4. It is not 1776, nor any other Fourth since. As Charles Pierce wrote at Esquire Politics yesterday “This is a great year to have a Fourth of July because we are in the middle of another one of those historical moments in which the great bluff gets called, loudly, raucously, and in the public square. You remember that great bluff.”

It is the ‘great bluff’ as Pierce writes, that Fredrick Douglas and Martin Luther King, Jr. called, along with others, like Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Harvey Milk, FDR, JFK, Malcolm X, RFK attempted as well.