On “Fox & Friends” Sunday, co-host Tucker Carlson claimed that a Tennessee school district’s decision to ban all flags on student vehicles after some students insisted on bedecking theirs with Confederate battle flags is evidence that liberals “hate expressions of patriotism.”

Steve Sorrells, the Dickson County Director of Student Services, explained that the ban on car-flags wasn’t intended to squelch all patriotic displays, because “we have a number of ways in which students learn how to be patriotic and express American pride” that don’t involve flying American flags on their vehicles.

However, Carlson and fellow co-host Anna Kooiman disagreed, situated as they always are atop a slippery slope. “This isn’t about a school district in Tennessee,” Carlson said. “This is a about a long-term trend where the people who run everything — the elites in Washington, New York and L.A. — despise rural America and its culture, suspect anybody that doesn’t live in their cities of being a bigot. They’re trying to crush that culture by banning its symbols.”