Patriotism Is Back! The Big Game Review 

Last night’s Super Bowl was replete with a new mood for the country — and you could feel it right from the beginning.

All the woke? Gone. By and large, the commercials themselves had been changed and transmuted. There were only a couple of woke commercials, but they were few and far between.

The general mood of the country is different. An optimistic, patriotic mood is present in the country, and you can feel it pretty much everywhere — evident in the Super Bowl’s advertisements to the national anthem to even the fairly terrible halftime show.

The Super Bowl kicked off a patriotic ad with Brad Pitt about how awesome America is and started with John Hancock signing the Declaration of Independence. As far as the game goes, Super-Bowl-winning Jalen Hurts is a tremendous quarterback. Not only that, he said before the game that he wanted to root himself in Jesus again. It seems Hurts and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes are very grounded guys, and that is quite a wonderful thing.

This is the kind of normie American stuff that is certainly welcome at this time in history.

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Do I wish that America had more cultural moments aside from the Super Bowl? The reality is that we’re so fragmented as a culture that it’s very difficult for us to come together on anything. Super Bowl Sunday has basically become a sort of secular catechism in the United States — but that catechism for many, many years was a woke catechism. It was “End racism” in the end zones. It was performances like Lady Gaga’s shouting about trans people at halftime.

But now we have a Super Bowl that is opening with the Declaration of Independence. Under Donald Trump, America is back.

The opening ad of the Super Bowl began with Brad Pitt saying, “How did we rise? The only way. Together.” Then, the ad showed members of the military, firefighters, doctors, and nurses. It ended with cowboys carrying an American flag.

It was basically a Trump ad: cowboys on horses with an American flag in an ad that starts with the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence.

The Secret Service’s patriotic ad included George Washington and Abe Lincoln. John Batiste, a terrific jazz artist, performed a great national anthem. When President Trump came on the big screen, there was a giant cheer.

The usual anti-American histrionics were gone. Patriotism was the theme of the day because patriotism is now cool.

President Trump went down to the field to meet with the victims and first responders from the New Orleans terrorist attack on the field before the game.

Knowing President Trump from having met him several times, you see that when it comes to these sorts of situations, he handles them so well. He’s just real.

There was that real feel to everything. It just all felt normal.

For a long time, it felt like we were getting sucker punched every time we watched the Super Bowl. Since Barack Obama became president, you were just waiting to be sucker punched by some Left-wing messaging that had to be drilled directly into your brain.

But on Sunday, it just wasn’t there. Instead, there was a feeling that you could simply be comfortable, watch the game, and it would be fine. 

It was all pretty awesome.