Remember the apoplectic spasms of patriotic furor over kneeling NFL players who nonviolently protested police brutality? Critics of these peaceful acts of conscience seethed with indignation and outrage at such a perceived slight to flag and country. Others, on the other hand, admired the character required to risk so much in such a public assertion of personal conviction.
Personally, I don’t find a kneeling Colin Kaepernick nearly as offensive as what I witnessed as I observed America’s Dear Leader, in a maudlin public display of faux patriotism, physically embrace the American flag.