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Dear Paul Ryan: The Gadsden flag incident is exactly why Republicans need to be ‘culture war guys’

By Christopher Tremoglie
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Dear Paul Ryan: The Gadsden flag incident is exactly why Republicans need to be ‘culture war guys’


By now, everyone is familiar with the viral video of a school official from the Vanguard School in Colorado Springs who told a student and his mother that the Revolutionary War-era Gadsden flag symbolized slavery and was, therefore, racist. It garnered the typical outrage from conservatives and Republicans every time something like this happens.

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