[Source.](https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/19/juneteenth-threatens-americas-civic-traditions/) > Nevertheless, in an act of leftist intersectional solidarity and conservative cultural capitulation, Juneteenth became the U.S.’s 11th federal holiday, not counting Inauguration Day, and the second explicitly dedicated to American “independence.” > The very name of the legislation is incredibly revealing. Referring to it as a “National Independence Day” — as opposed to the Fourth of July, America’s original Independence Day, that doesn’t enjoy the “national” language — is semantic manipulation intended to convey that this is the real independence day. This bestowal of honor on Juneteenth is an exercise in refounding the country in accordance with the priorities of the intersectional identitarian left (e.g., direct democracy, expansive legal privileges for preferential political groups, and the weaponization of government against “bitter clingers”) in the pursuit of casting aside the few remaining constitutional and republican norms of the American founding such as a societal reverence for natural law and federalism. ----------- > Juneteenth Threatens America’s Civic Traditions That's the whole point of the "holiday."