Social media has been gripped the past few days with NFL fever, as political junkies and culture warriors on both sides have gone to war over whether football players ought to kneel or show other signs of protest during the national anthem.
Most everything that has been said on the matter by pundits and politicos has been fairly dimwitted, but nothing as dimwitted and self-defeating as Washington Post columnist David Rothkopf’s suggestion this weekend that people kneel before President Trump in protest.
If that sounds stupid, that’s because it is.
“Wouldn’t it be great if taking a knee became the symbol of resistance to Trump & wherever he went, wherever people gathered, they did it?” the columnist asked in a tweet he clearly didn’t think all the way through.
His remark came in reference to Trump saying recently that any player who sits or kneels during the anthem ought to be fired or disciplined by the league’s commissioners.
Rothkopf eventually deleted his note after the Internet pointed out that submitting before a supposedly power-hungry megalomaniac is probably the least effective method of expressing dissent.
Kneel before Trump! Yes, that’ll really show him.
