Dear Leader’s first term saw a lot of new flagpoles installed in the suburbs. Spindly, short, ultra-cheap poles, placed way too close to the street or sidewalk. With flags so large that they nearly touch the ground. Flag in your face, flag as a confrontation, as a challenge. Those flags are red flags for sure.

Also a bad sign: households who feel that one flag is good, but a dozen miniature flags are better, and both is best of all.