America has a reputation as a “land of the protest.” A certain amount of spitballs is tolerated even at sacred cows.
I believe Trump has mainstreamed putting the shoe on the other foot. Kaepernick isn’t being nuanced — and neither is Donald. I don’t think Donald can keep this up forever of course, and I don’t even think we want to. Space has to be carved out for the Holy Spirit to teach a larger lesson. You don’t throw babies out with bathwater, no matter how bad the bathwater.
Sure. The right to petition the government for a redress of grievances is in the first amendment, but this comes at the price of peaceable assembly.
It wasn't until recently that the expectation was that all protests had to end the protester's way without compromise. It may be that the protesters increasingly turned to violence to make it be this way. The NFL protests have not been violent, but they sure picked a very big sacred cow to poke. I believe that there is a difference between making a protest and usurping a time-honored tradition for one's own protest moment when any other time would suffice.
To me, this is a case where protest became theft, or stolen honor. The NFL fans are responding by peaceably refusing to assemble.
-PJ