By Enrique Acevedo Enrique Acevedo is anchor of the news program “En Punto” on Televisa.
from World Outlook [reprinted from Washington Post]
"The opinion column below first appeared in the Washington Post on June 14, 2025. World-Outlook publishes it for the information of our readers. We think it tackles an important cultural dimension of the recent protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s intensified wave of workplace raids and deportations of undocumented immigrants.
The headline, subhead, photo, and text below are taken from the original. The endnote is by World-Outlook."
It’s like trying to reclaim the red cap though, it’s almost too far gone at this point. There was a period where people were wearing ironic red caps with anti-trump slogans on them as a way to take some of the power out of the symbol.
It only ended up causing stress to people who didn’t want to wait to find out if the hat-wearer was going to call them a slur.
If I saw a loud crowd marching down the street brandishing American flags, I would also not want to hang around to find out if they are fascists or not.
Have you been to America? Plenty of leftists around the country fly American flags.
That’s far from an even comparison. Red caps were nothing of note before MAGA unless maybe your favorite sports team use them. The flag of the United States of America carries far more history and significance than a red cap. Any future version of the USA will include the same flag. Every American should identify with it in some level. It’s worth taking control of its meaning and not let it be a synonym for fascism.