#btw the eagle and liberty cap flag was used by kentucky in the war of 1812 (ask me about the francophile kentucky gazette of the 1810s)

[clove-pinks]

It's phrygian cap in a landslide for this poll, probably to no one's surprise (especially since Smurf hat was not an option).

OH, BUT WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH PERFORMATIVE FREEDOM SIGNIFIERS!!

The "liberty cap" was a popular symbol in the early United States! Possibly not with a cocarde tricolore on it (although one of the images in my poll was used in an article titled "The Rise and Fall of the Liberty Cap"). For whatever reason, in US usage it's frequently on a pole:

Captain Marryat of all people mocked it ("The only idea we have of the cap of liberty is, the bonnet rouge of the French... so [Americans] have a cap of the own, which (begging their pardon) looks more like a fool's cap than any thing else.")

You will also see our [cooler, female] national personification, Columbia, wearing the liberty cap/phrygian cap. I was pleased to find a toque or beanie version for sale, I'm tempted to buy one (hoping and praying some deranged modern militia doesn't remember this exists).

Honorable mention from the reblogs:

IMPORTANT FLASH POLL