{"id":114251,"date":"2019-01-22T11:04:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=114251"},"modified":"2019-01-22T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:04:14","slug":"cultural-marxism-on-steroids-house-democrat-leadership-demands-a-ban-on-maga-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=114251","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Marxism on Steroids: House Democrat Leadership Demands a Ban on MAGA Hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Senior Democrat: Ban Teens from Wearing MAGA Hats<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_114252\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MAGA-Make-America-Great-Again-hat-burning-at-Berkeley-Getty-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114252\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MAGA-Make-America-Great-Again-hat-burning-at-Berkeley-Getty-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MAGA-Make-America-Great-Again-hat-burning-at-Berkeley-Getty-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MAGA-Make-America-Great-Again-hat-burning-at-Berkeley-Getty-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elijah Nouvelage \/ Getty<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<h3>House Budget Committee chair Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) called Sunday for a ban on teenagers wearing \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d (MAGA) hats, in response to a viral video of a confrontation between Catholic students and Native American counter-demonstrators at the March for Life on Friday in Washington, DC.<\/h3>\n<p>by Joel Pollack<br \/>\nBREITBART<\/p>\n<p>Yarmuth holds one of the most powerful positions in the Democrat-run U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10002921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2019\/01\/John-Yarmuth-and-Nancy-Pelosi-Getty.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10002921\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2019\/01\/John-Yarmuth-and-Nancy-Pelosi-Getty-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"John Yarmuth and Nancy Pelosi (Drew Angerer \/ Getty)\" width=\"990\" height=\"743\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 OCTOBER 25: (L to R) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks as Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) looks on during a news conference to express their opposition to the GOP tax reform plan, October 25, 2017 in Washington, DC. House Republicans are expected to introduce their tax reform bill in the coming weeks. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He blamed President Donald Trump for the students\u2019 behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Yarmuth tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of teenagers wearing MAGA hats until we can figure out what is going on. They seem to be poisoning young minds. [1\/2] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yq5bLd4kE2\">https:\/\/t.co\/yq5bLd4kE2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Yarmuth \ud83e\udd43 (@JohnYarmuth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnYarmuth\/status\/1087008928909742081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The conduct we saw in this video is beyond appalling, but it didn\u2019t happen in a vacuum. This is a direct result of the racist hatred displayed daily by the President of the United States who, sadly, some mistake for a role model. [2\/2]<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Yarmuth \ud83e\udd43 (@JohnYarmuth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnYarmuth\/status\/1087008930193162242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The MAGA hats are one of the most recognizable symbols of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, and are commonly worn by Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<p>However, as numerous critics have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2019\/01\/20\/critics-covington-maga-critics-push-back-against-portrayal-of-catholic-high-school-as-racist-to-native-american\/\">pointed out<\/a>, the confrontation was widely mis-reported, and took place in almost exactly the opposite way it had been reported in the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>The students had been targeted by racial slurs, and the Native American activist approached them, rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>Yarmuth, like every other member of Congress, swore an\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/history.house.gov\/Institution\/Origins-Development\/Oath-of-Office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">oath<\/a>\u00a0to support and defend the U.S. Constitution \u2014 including the\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/constitution.findlaw.com\/amendment1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">First Amendment<\/a>, which declares: \u201cCongress shall make no law \u2026 abridging the freedom of speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/01\/20\/john-yarmuth-senior-democrat-ban-teens-from-wearing-maga-hats\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/01\/20\/john-yarmuth-senior-democrat-ban-teens-from-wearing-maga-hats\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Democrat: Ban Teens from Wearing MAGA Hats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}