https://www.thetimes.com/article/ad6cd2c3-fdf1-458b-91e0-d6c8883c67f4
https://www.reddit.com/r/flags/comments/1nrgwse/usa_flag_changed_on_wikipedia/
Within the tricoleur scheme that flourished in Europe and elsewhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, red seems to reliably stand for populism. (Some interesting historical contexts for this.) Which makes this kerfuffle sort of interesting.