It’s an extension of OFA, BLM, and the other leftist, race-baiting groups. You see, black voters didn’t turn out for Hillary like they did for St. Barack. Worse yet, many broke ranks and voted for Trump (the horrors!). The Dems need 2 things to regain seats in the mid-terms, and the White House in 2020: a widespread belief among the electorate that Republicans = racists, and an energized force of voters that are going to whatever Dem candidate is on the ballot.
Unfortunately, Trump took the bait. Stupid. If he had ignored the take-a-knee phenomenon, it would have died off on its own. Or, if he had ridiculed it - perhaps by tweeting out a picture of some of the players “taking a knee”, and captioning it with “NFL Players kneeling and bowing in reverence for our flag and country.”.
The other response that has yet to be made is that the protests were started/inspired by the BLM movement, which itself is built upon a foundation of lies. No one dares question the motives of the BLM crowd, lest they too be branded as racists.
ALL of this, with the faux-outrage from the left, is manufactured and contrived specifically to divide the nation.
No, I’m glad Trump “took the bait.”
It’s time for our leaders to affirm love and allegiance to our great country. We got with years of Obama doing just the opposite.
Sure, at first you’re going to get this idiotic behavior, but in the end, the American People will stand proud and strong for America and against the wiles of these Leftist snakes.
This has been the Republican Party for the past few decades. They have become submissive and fearful of The Left. They are like the bullied kid in school who finds it easier to just hand over his lunch money every day and comb the spitballs out of his hair at night. In fact, he goes out of his way to please the bullies, hoping that they will eventually like him. The kid is now fully cucked and has no self-respect. Just look at Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. They are nothing more than grown up bullied kids who are weak and timid, forever trying to get into the good graces of Democrats who despise them and hold them in contempt. There is no fight in them anymore. They just want to go along to get along.
If not for Donald Trump, I think a president Hillary would truly be the end of conservatism. You saw it among almost every Republican politician just before the election. They were all reconciled to the fact that Trump would lose and so they were positioning themselves to pay tribute to her and help her take America down a bad road.