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Every November the partisan mobs crank up the same tired narrative: Thanksgiving is a sinister celebration of colonial violence and should be scrubbed from public life. Conservatives know better — this is a holiday about family, faith, and gratitude, not a left-wing grading of historical blame. The campus agitators and coastal elites who scream the loudest want to weaponize guilt and erase a tradition that unites Americans across generations.
What the activists call “reframing” is really a political stunt cloaked in moral urgency, and the most visible expression of that stance is the so-called National Day of Mourning held each year in Plymouth. Indigenous organizers like the United American Indians of New England stage this event to offer a solemn alternative narrative, and they’ve made their message part of the November calendar for decades. Americans can, and should, hear those grievances without letting them become an excuse to cancel our customs.
That said, history is complicated — Squanto did help the early Plymouth colonists survive, and disease and displacement devastated native populations after contact, realities that deserve honest acknowledgement rather than cherry-picked moralizing. Pointing out tragedy in our past is not the same as renouncing the good that also grew from this country’s founding, and too often the left treats nuance as betrayal. We can teach the full story without throwing out everything that teaches gratitude, charity, and family cohesion.
The Thanksgiving Americans celebrate today is also a civil-religious tradition with roots in national unity, formalized by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War as a way to bind a broken nation together. That evolution — from harvest feast to national day of prayer and thanks — is worth defending against people who would reduce our holidays to political lectures. Conservatives should be proud to keep that flame alive in homes and churches, where parents pass on faith and common sense to the next generation.
Yes, critics will continue to hold rallies, write op-eds, and demand municipal proclamations recasting Thanksgiving as a day of mourning, and those protests get press because controversy sells. But the mainstream majority sees Thanksgiving as a chance to pause, be grateful, and feed neighbors in need — not as a performative confession booth for historical sins. We should listen to Indigenous voices where appropriate, but resist the idea that every American tradition must be hostage to perpetual contrition.
So this Thanksgiving, Americans should sit down at their tables with confidence: teach history honestly, pray if you pray, and refuse to let the woke industrial complex turn gratitude into guilt. Let the coastal activists march in Plymouth if they must, but the rest of the country will keep carving the turkey, saying grace, and living out the virtues that made this nation worth loving. That quiet, stubborn loyalty to family and country is not a crime — it’s patriotism, and it will outlast the latest leftist fad.
