For a while there, when one side spoke out a bit more than the other, lots of Americans made a point to say that sports and politics shouldn’t mix. The former should be a getaway, an escape from the latter. Then the United States elected a television star. Then they did it again.
The truth is that entertainment and politics have never lived in their own separate circles on the Venn Diagram. History books tell us as much. Politics is a game the same way sports are. The crossover appeal is inherent. And in the age of social media, so is the choosing of sides to the (hopefully not literal) death.