In Glenn Beck’s world, everything is black or white; or more accurately, things are either “constitutional” or “progressive,” with the latter category consisting of everything in the world that Beck randomly decides doesn’t fit into his amorphous and constantly evolving personal political philosophy.
The result is that his listeners are frequently treated to long pseudo-historical monologues in which Beck attempts to cram history into the categories that he has constructed so that everything from the Star Spangled Banner to the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag are all “progressive” trappings while declaring that the “progressives” in the Republican party are the modern-day ancestors of the fascists:
