NY Times Mara Gay says seeing 'dozens of American flags' flying is 'just disturbing'

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Flags flying in suburban Long Island was a "disturbing" sight for The New York Times' Mara Gay.

"This is another area where Democrats really need to get serious about talking about what this threat is," said Gay, who is a member of The New York Times Editorial Board.
"The need to stop being surprised by all of this and start taking it seriously. Y'know, it's really concerning to me that the Democrats haven't just gone ahead, at this point, and said 'we're doing this on our own,' in terms of getting a commission together to explain to the American people how we allowed the insurrection to take place in the Capitol," Gay said.

"I think that really needs to move forward swiftly. Y'know, the reality is here that we have a large percentage of the American population," Gay continued. "I don't know how big it is, but we have tens of millions of Trump voters continuing to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others.

"I think that as long as they see Americanness as the same, as one, with whiteness, this is going to continue. We have to figure out how to get every American a place at the table in this democracy, but how to separate Americanness, America, with whiteness. Until we can confront that, and talk about that, this is really going to continue.

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