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.