But even with the American Right, we don’t have our own songs. It is the national anthem after all people should know it. The Star-Spangled Banner - for all its kitsch and association with sports events - is arguably the one song nearly all Americans know. There are very few shared songs in America, outside of a few pop songs. Parents protesting Critical Race Theory in their children’s schools have also sung it at school board meetings. The Trump supporters locked away in a DC jail are not the only ones to embrace the Star-Spangled Banner as their protest anthem. A song that right-wingers may have scoffed at as the anthem for the Empire of Nothing now represents the resistance to the Empire. Liberal elites prefer the black national anthem over it, and its “problematic” nature is increasingly noted. But increasingly the national anthem is associated exclusively with the Right. The national anthem may make for an odd protest song for Americans incarcerated by the government represented by said tune. To voice their protest, they belt out the Star-Spangled Banner from their jail cells every night.

Several January 6 protesters remained locked up without just cause in a Washington D.C.

The star spangled banner song sung