What’s With The Athletes Publicly Supporting Trump?

There has been some unexpected synergy between the Trump campaign and sports in recent days.

Item: During a rally at Penn State last week, Trump called to the podium the school’s perennial national championship wrestling team and several wrestlers were wearing red Make America Great Again hats. The one wrestler who spoke, mentioned the need to win Pennsylvania and said “Make America Great Again. Go vote.” I’m presuming he’s not in the dudes for Kamala camp.

Item: A Texas Tech kicker scored a touchdown Saturday on a fake field goal and in celebration afterward pulled up his jersey to reveal a T-shirt underneath with the message “Trump 24 MAGA.” Again, not likely a Harris supporter.

Item: One of those insipid, postgame, on-field interviews following Sunday night’s San Francisco-Dallas NFL contest was interrupted by 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa who pointed to the Make America Great Again hat he was wearing, before exiting. No Kamala male voter there, I presume.

I see Bosa has been flayed by social media keyboard warriors, who no doubt think Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the National Anthem was quite fine. The Texas Tech kicker and, presumably the PSU wrestlers, faced similar blowback on social media –megaphone for morons.

Whatever the reason for the public displays, good for these guys who have demonstrated their political allegiance. We’ve had more than our share of athletes whose sentiments lie with the left who have been free to pontificate ad nauseam.

I don’t profess to be sure what all this means. I’m thinking it just might indicate that a large percentage of athletes who before would have been intimidated by the screeching left and kept their political views quiet, no longer feel compelled to shut up.

Are they optimistic that Trump will win the election and the suffocating censorship of the Biden-Harris regime will be stopped? Maybe.

Or maybe they don’t care and are tired of living their lives afraid to offend the radical and vocal leftists who seek to control all public discourse.

Whatever the reason, good for these guys who have demonstrated their political allegiance. We’ve had more than our share of athletes whose sentiments lie with the left who have been free to pontificate ad nauseam.

And we’ve had championship teams refuse offers of White House visits when the “wrong” party, AKA Republicans, held the presidency.

God knows, leftist entertainment celebrities are free to mouth off on politics with impunity, in contrast to conservatives facing career cancellation if they follow suit.

I’ve long lamented the hypocrisy of our times, which seeks to empower leftists to influence the public, while putting severe limitations on conservatives.

It’s true in LameStream media, social media, government bureaucracy, our military, schools, courts and many businesses.

If this is the first trickle of evidence that the tide is turning, we all should be grateful.