Was my mom wrong to buy a ‘God Bless America’ balloon, or did that stranger cross a line?

Was my mom wrong to buy a ‘God Bless America’ balloon, or did that stranger cross a line?
My mom told me she got this balloon for the 4th name July. Some guy was starting her down as she went by to check out and kept calling her an imbecile and told her the “God Bless America” balloon was associated with President Trump. She told him it was patriotic and ignored him and got in line to pay but he followed her and kept at it until she turn and looked him dead in the eye and told him to stop. Then he laughed and walked off.

I think this says something bigger about how polarized people have become. “God Bless America” existed long before modern partisan politics and has been used by Americans across political, religious, and cultural backgrounds for generations.

Is patriotic imagery now automatically political, or did this guy cross a line by treating a generic patriotic balloon as a partisan statement?

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Was my mom wrong to buy a ‘God Bless America’ balloon, or did that stranger cross a line?
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