{"id":1666626,"date":"2026-02-26T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1666626"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:25:00","slug":"youre-not-alone-reporters-comfort-those-triggered-and-traumatized-by-scenes-of-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/youre-not-alone-reporters-comfort-those-triggered-and-traumatized-by-scenes-of-patriotism\/1666626\/","title":{"rendered":"“You’re Not Alone”: Reporters Comfort Those Triggered And Traumatized By Scenes Of Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"

“You’re Not Alone”: Reporters Comfort Those Triggered And Traumatized By Scenes Of Patriotism<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

This week, most Americans found a moment of rare unity in our pride over the performance of our athletes in the Winter Olympics. <\/strong><\/p>\n

After years of rage politics, there was a brief respite as we joined in cheering our team in representing the United States in Milan and Cortina.<\/p>\n

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Well, most of us. Some in the media found the entire demonstration of patriotism to be intolerable and triggering. <\/strong><\/p>\n

What is striking is how this aversion to our flag and country was so openly expressed in major media.<\/p>\n

This week, the nightmare continued for some on the left who were traumatized by seeing the American flag and open displays of patriotism. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Jack Hughes, one of the heroes of the gold medal hockey game,\u00a0returned to New Jersey<\/a>\u00a0to play and was met with cheers of \u201cUSA, USA\u201d and a sea of American flags. Hughes immediately called his Olympic teammate Tage Thompson of the visiting\u00a0Buffalo Sabres to the ice to join him. The two skated arm in arm as the crowd celebrated them and our country.<\/p>\n

It was another unifying moment for the country. The fans joined arm in arm to relish this moment for the nation.<\/p>\n

These scenes are clearly having a different impact on some on the left.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The HuffPost even published an article with therapeutic advice for liberals triggered by seeing so many American flags. The liberal publication ran an article titled \u201cThere\u2019s a Name for the Discomfort You\u2019re Feeling Watching the Olympics Right Now.\u201d It then published it a second time before the gold-medal hockey game with Canada \u2014 presumably to prepare its readers for the nightmare of the United States actually winning.<\/p>\n

The subheading read, \u201cIf waving the American flag or chanting \u2018USA!\u2019 turns you off right now, you\u2019re not alone.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Senior writer Monica Torres began the article with this line: \u201cWhile President Donald Trump\u2019s deportation agenda separates families, and federal agents detain 5-year-olds and kill unarmed civilians, American athletes are winning medals on behalf of the nation at the Olympics right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Torres goes on to interview three therapists for this \u201cstory\u201d about how the celebration of the United States team has forced many liberals into therapy over their trauma and \u201cthe cognitive dissonance of rooting for U.S. sports.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Los Angeles-based licensed clinical social worker Aimee Monterrosa explained that the \u201catrocities\u201d of the United States can trigger feelings of guilt, despair, shame, anger\u201d in seeing the country celebrate these sports victories.<\/p>\n

Expert Lauren Appio echoed how \u201cwaving the American flag or chanting, \u2018USA!\u2019 [can make] us feel grossed out or ashamed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over at Vox<\/a>, Senior correspondent (and former Atlantic writer)\u00a0Alex Abad-Santos<\/a>\u00a0wrote an article<\/a>\u00a0on the winners and losers of the Olympics. The column perfectly summed up the pathological opposition of some to this country\u2019s symbols and celebrations.<\/p>\n

Abad-Santos declared the men\u2019s hockey team one of the biggest \u201closers\u201d of the games. He blamed that team for alienating citizens by their patriotic statements: \u201cThe conversation surrounding the win quickly shifted into how the team celebrated and who it celebrated with.\u201d He expressed outrage over the team accepting the celebratory call from the President of the United States.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the \u201cwinner,\u201d according to Abad-Santos, was . . . wait for it . . .\u00a0 Eileen Gu, the American who reportedly took millions from the repressive Chinese regime to ski for China.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gu used the games to criticize the United States while saying nothing of how China arrests anyone who speaks out against that country.<\/p>\n

Abad-Santos gushes:<\/p>\n

\u201cGu symbolizes the reality that athletes don\u2019t need the US\u2019s backing or support to be commercially successful. <\/strong>That makes some Americans like Vance uneasy. She also embodies the very American idea of relentlessly pursuing success and maximizing it, no matter what it takes. Gu represents the American dream and the startling concept that America isn\u2019t necessary for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last line is particularly telling. <\/strong>Abad-Santos is celebrating the idea that you can live the American dream without America.<\/p>\n

Others joined in lionizing Gu. Charlotte Harpur,\u00a0writing<\/a>\u00a0for The New York Times\u2019 (NYT) The Athletic, virtually declared her a new deity: \u201cYou would be forgiven if you thought Gu was a quasi-human robot expertly created by artificial intelligence, so eloquent are her responses to the media.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next day, the Times then slammed Men\u2019s Hockey Team in an article titled \u201cThe U.S. men\u2019s Olympic hockey team won gold \u2014 and then lost the room.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>The Athletic<\/em>\u2018s Jerry Brewer acknowledged that speaking with the U.S. president after such a win is \u201can obligatory celebration.\u201d However, he declared that these are not \u201cnormal times\u201d:\u00a0 \u201cThis isn\u2019t a neutral climate. This isn\u2019t a neutral president. And in a nation this polarized, the proximity carries weight whether the players are being intentional or merely naive.\u201d<\/p>\n

These columns on sites like HuffPost and Vox stripped away the pretense of past pieces and laid bare the antagonism for the United States by some on the left.<\/strong> The open celebration of the country was too much for many rage addicts today.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, these writers are largely writing for each other. The public long ago left these sites. They now write for a minority of Americans who are triggered by the appearance of American flags or traumatized by expressions of patriotism.<\/p>\n

What these writers find repulsive is rousing for the rest of us. <\/strong>Watching Hughes and Thompson skate together last night was everything that is great about this country, as those Jersey fans went wild. Hughes said that he was struggling not to get emotional at that moment. He was not alone.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the author of the New York Times bestselling \u201cRage and the Republic<\/a>: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 02\/26\/2026 – 14:25<\/span><\/p>\n

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