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Surprisingly, given how directly he dealt with other holidays, Charles Schulz did few Fourth of July strips, and no TV specials. Perhaps his own sense of patriotism was the cause. Here's a telling letter he sent in 1970.
Everyone who's seen "A Charlie Brown Christmas" or read the Peanuts strip in depth knows how important religion was to Schulz. But he did *not* care for current trends of equating Christianity with Americanism, which has only gotten worse. Here's an interview snippet.
It's hard to know what he would've made of our current predicament. I imagine we'd have seen perhaps a strip or two like this one from May 2, 1958.
I'm by no means saying that Schulz wasn't a patriotic guy. His military service in WWII was extremely important to him. Here's a thread I did a while back on how he celebrated Veterans Day in the strip. https://twitter.com/LukeEpplin/status/1061722475845816321
