With a few exceptions, the getups seemed to be holding space for a movement that believes America’s greatest days are behind it.

I remember standing on the bleachers with my classmates, the boys in tuxes, the girls in shiny green polyester prom dresses with puffed ... I believed America was the only country on Earth where ...

“America,” Smith begins in a solemn tone generally reserved for a person situated towards the edge of a primary debate stage, “You don’t give a damn about the Sixers. And neither do we.