Good morning, folks. Happy Nuclear Family Month.

Yes, Nuclear Family Month.

That is what Tennessee Governor Bill Lee declared for June. And if you listened to the media reaction, you'd think he announced National Puppy-Kicking Season. The Left immediately treated the idea of celebrating mothers, fathers, and children living under one roof as some sort of extremist manifesto.

Think about how crazy that is.

I know. We aren’t supposed to discuss these things, because politics is all about the economy, right?

For most of human history, the nuclear family wasn't controversial. It wasn't political. It wasn't even something people debated. It was the default operating system for civilization. Every culture understood that if you wanted stable communities, productive citizens, and fewer people screaming at strangers on social media, it probably helped if children grew up with structure and accountability.

Now we're told celebrating the family is somehow exclusionary.

It's fascinating how quickly things change.

My birthday month always comes with this annual bonus feature package. June arrives and, right on cue, here comes Pride Month. Corporate America breaks out the rainbow logos. Politicians suddenly become amateur diversity coordinators. Companies that spent the previous eleven months trying to figure out how to replace workers with AI suddenly become deeply concerned about your emotional journey.

And this year one man managed to send the LGBTQ activist crowd into orbit simply by posting a picture of the American flag and declaring:

"THIS is my pride flag."

That's it.

No manifesto. No 300-page dissertation. No interpretive dance.

Just Old Glory.

And people lost their minds.

LGBTQ Pride is taking a hit…

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s trans period pride event has been cancelled by the library following backlash

Phoenix Pride filed for bankruptcy. Maybe they need to pay some white supremacists to pretend to attack them?

Which raises an interesting question: when did American patriotism become controversial? When did loving your country become more offensive than hating it?

Because that's really the dividing line today.

The argument isn't over flags.

The argument is over whether America is fundamentally good or fundamentally evil.

One side sees a nation that abolished slavery, defeated fascism, defeated communism, put men on the moon, created unprecedented prosperity, and remains the destination millions risk everything to reach.

The other side looks at that same history and sees nothing but oppression.

Imagine being handed the greatest success story in human history and deciding your life's mission is writing bad Yelp reviews about it.

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