Here's a key question: what are the NFL players who take a knee during the national anthem protesting? This morning, I read five different articles about the protests; three were at sites that are obviously leftist (like The New Yorker). The other two were at sites that generally support the President. Guess what? None of the five articles discussed the reason for the protests. If you only read these articles, you would come to the conclusion that the protests were about President Trump and what he said last Friday in Alabama, namely that it would be great if an NFL owner were to fire one of these protesters. And if you didn't read these articles, you would think that the players were protesting against America itself. After all, there are few symbols more clearly American than the Star Spangled Banner and the flag.
How can this be? How could we have a major protest at the NFL with so little explanation of what is the target of that protest? If Hillary Clinton's team were here, they would tell us that the protesters have a "messaging" problem. Of course, with Hillary, there was always a messaging problem, no matter what was actually happening; four Americans got murdered in Benghazi, but the problem was with the messaging. But I digress.
The reality is that the original protest by a few NFL players has been hijacked by the anti-Trump forces. The President spoke, and all the anti-Trumpers jumped on the opposition bandwagon. This was an incredible mistake. The left put the President in the position of being the defender of the flag and the national anthem. He is the defender of America itself against those who now protest our own homeland. There is no other explanation being offered. Put that all together and it means that ultimately, the anti-Trump forces will lose. No matter what the NFL owners do, they will ultimately bow to the loss of TV ratings, crowds and supporters. Of course, when they do, the other side will strike back with a vengeance, and the owners will suffer again. For the average American, however, there is not going to be much sympathy for a bunch of enormously rich and privileged players protesting against the America that made them enormously rich and privileged in the first place. The loss by the protesters is coming and it is coming soon.
How can this be? How could we have a major protest at the NFL with so little explanation of what is the target of that protest? If Hillary Clinton's team were here, they would tell us that the protesters have a "messaging" problem. Of course, with Hillary, there was always a messaging problem, no matter what was actually happening; four Americans got murdered in Benghazi, but the problem was with the messaging. But I digress.
The reality is that the original protest by a few NFL players has been hijacked by the anti-Trump forces. The President spoke, and all the anti-Trumpers jumped on the opposition bandwagon. This was an incredible mistake. The left put the President in the position of being the defender of the flag and the national anthem. He is the defender of America itself against those who now protest our own homeland. There is no other explanation being offered. Put that all together and it means that ultimately, the anti-Trump forces will lose. No matter what the NFL owners do, they will ultimately bow to the loss of TV ratings, crowds and supporters. Of course, when they do, the other side will strike back with a vengeance, and the owners will suffer again. For the average American, however, there is not going to be much sympathy for a bunch of enormously rich and privileged players protesting against the America that made them enormously rich and privileged in the first place. The loss by the protesters is coming and it is coming soon.
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