It's been nearly a week since the USA Men's hockey team won the Olympic gold medal, but the prog media chooses to focus on their acceptance of well wishes from President Donald Trump as well as players laughing at what the press believed was a misogynist joke.
This entire week the media and leftist pundits have been rushing to their podcast microphones, Substack pages, etc. to discuss the "fallout" from this "scandal." Apparently these folks see themselves as some sort of moral arbiters on what is a scandal and thus their breathless coverage of it is what constitutes a fallout.
Thankfully, as Charles C.W. Cooke points out, not even the media can steal the unadulterated joy of U.S. citizens celebrating the epic of achievement of their fellow Americans.
If you were to stop 100 people on the street at random and ask them about the USA’s victory on Sunday, how many do you think would fixate on the supposed jingoism of the team, or on President Trump’s phone call and White House invitation, or on Kash bloody Patel? Two? If that? Meanwhile, the other 98 would be busy talking about where they were when it happened, reflecting on whether they thought we were going to pull it out, and meditating upon that glorious moment — played over and over and over in the days since — when Jack Hughes smashed the puck into the back of the goal, and Kenny Albert shouted “Jack Hughes wins it, the golden goal for the United States, for the first time since the 1980 miracle!,” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird started up, and the boys in the band sat drinking beers during the press conference and talking about the thing that had everyone except the pencil pushers watching in the first place: hockey.
There were five members of the men's team who play for NHL squads based in Canada. You have some suggesting that Canadian citizens do what so many Americans refuse to do, which is essentially ostracize those players for choosing to appear with the eeeeeeeevil Trump. Once again, Charlie Cooke nails it.
Ultimately, being an American involves accepting that the people who oppose you on some extremely important things are also Americans, and agreeing to coexist with them nevertheless. The progressive hockey fans who are devastated that their favorite players were happy to go to the White House are simply refusing to do that. That is their right, but there is no reason for anyone else to indulge their solipsism.
And I also adamantly refuse to let any individual, even someone as prominent as a sitting POTUS, have so much control over my mindset that I lose all semblance of rational thought.
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