She rejects the notion that a non-multicultural United States ever existed and warns against defining patriotism through lineage and land.

“The idea that there was ever a United States of America that was not multicultural is simply a fantasy.”

Cenk Uygur claims that American identity is defined by the country being an idea based on freedom, hope, opportunity, equality, and justice.

“But you can become an American because America is an idea. It's an idea about freedom, hope, opportunity, equality, and justice.”

Andrew Callaghan believes American identity is characterized by the opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to participate in the American experiment.

“I guess to be an American is to like be from anywhere in the world and then participate in the American experiment and to kind of join this this great, beautiful, strange country.”

Briahna Joy Gray maintains that the promise of America is the continuous endeavor to become a more perfect union.

“But I think what's beautiful about America, the promise of America, is that it can become a more perfect union.”

Louis Provost argues that immigrants in America have a duty to assimilate by waving the American flag and respecting the country's laws.

“No, you come here if you're going to live here, you want to assimilate, become an American, wave the American flag, the US flag.”

The United States is defined as a propositional, civic nation where identity is based on subscribing to shared ethical and civic values rather than ethnic or tribal lineage.

“The United States of America is a propositional country where we have like a civic code of ethics that people can subscribe to which then makes them American.”

He asserts that identifying as an American without qualifications is the most powerful identity to defeat the MAGA movement.

“the one identity that is powerful enough to defeat the MAGA identity and has the maximum width to it is the American identity that says I'm an American. And because I'm an American with no qualifications and no hyphens, I oppose this. I oppose this heinous season.”