Donald Trump's Nostalgic, Lulling Inaugural Concert
Acts like 3 Doors Down, Toby Keith, and the Piano Guys offered the comfort of looking backwards.
The slogan “Make America Great Again” has been subject to a —when, exactly, are we to believe America was greater before? The Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial Thursday night offered a few answers. From the looks of it, America was great when Lee Greenwood wrote “Proud to Be an American” in the Reagan ’80s, and maybe again when the song became a theme song for the first Gulf War, under George H.W. Bush. It was great under George W. Bush, too—both pre-9/11 whenwhen the nation joined in vengeance toToby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue.” The red-jacketed members of the Army Fife and Drum Corp suggested yet another Great time: 1781.
