Word: jingoistic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Recently, right-wing candidates seem to have learned their lessons, borrowing songs with more thoroughbred jingoist credentials for their theme music. Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” playing sporadically during the 1984 Republican National Convention, and interminably after Sept. 11, is a prime example...
...when the country was at war, there was Berlin banging the drum at the head of the parade. He had often used military metaphors to invigorate his lyrics - remember that Alexander's bugle call was "So natural that you want to go to war" - and thus was primed with jingoist jingles when America did go to war. In 1917, Berlin scored with "For Your Country and My Country," "I?m Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind," "Let?s All Be Americans Now? and a mother?s fond lament about her wayward soldier son, "They Were...