that he's usually been one of those both-sides-do-it types. Maybe Trump is getting to be too much for pretty much everybody who can walk upright and doesn't draw flies.

Pro football, basketball, baseball. It's not going to be easy to ignore.

Not only is Cilizza a bothsideist (who wrote 50 stories on HRC's emails, but that's a different story), he is ignorant of history.

He writes this article as if the racism of Nixon and Reagan didn't exist. As if the GOP hasn't been pandering to racists for 40 years.

If you don't learn history you're doomed to repeat it.

He doesn't seem like the the type to think at much less think ahead.

The pattern is there, as you pointed out. All he ever does is incite.

The president did not anticipate Goodell, several NFL owners, LeBron, Stevie Wonder, and MLB players all coming out on the side of Kaepernick.

The president BADLY misjudged this one.

Mr. 27.5 (LeBron's name for him) is going to back down. Or his presidency will break down over this.

But I don't know that Trump will back down.

Because this controversy will break him. If pro athletes AND their teams stand against Trump it will sink his presidency.

Let him have his 10% base of hardcore racists. Americans love sports and if all their heroes AND the team billionaire owners tell Americans that 27.5 is toxic it will sink his approval ratings. Once he gets below 28% or so the GOP congress will jump ship and we'll be done.

He went so far over the edge in Alabama that he now owns this thing!

This puts the NFL in a really bad position. I say they weasel out because at the end of the day all they care about is making money.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/05/30/nfl-last-sports-bastion-of-white-male-conservatives/

I'm not saying this situation is guaranteed to blow up in 27.5's face. But I give it 50/50 odds.

divisive bully. He's an embarrassment to our country and a danger to our country and the world. Take him out with the 25th Amendment

Should have been
"The dark racial sentiment in Reagan's Neshoba Fair speech"
"The dark racial sentiment in Nixon's Southern Strategy"
"The dark racial sentiment in Reagan's 'young bucks' line"
"The dark racial sentiment in Nixon's deal with Strom Thurmond that caused Panetta to quit"
"The dark racial sentiment in Nixon's War on Drugs, according to Ehrlichman"

Cilizza is about 40 years too late.

He wasn't even born when Nixon was still in office.

And is just getting it now. Better late than never.


(And I totally agree with you - Cilizza is a great example for why the US needs to be better at teaching history. He's acting like this GOP racism stuff is new. Has he heard about those guys Nixon and Reagan?)

Imbecile Bully tries to stir up divisiveness & hate, even war. Truly, he is an evil man. The staff around him need to show some patriotism & get him out under the 25th Amendment.

when somebody disrespects our flag

Special lineage. Father issues. Early surprise success. Setbacks and enemies and challenges. He is always turned back at first, then pushes through.

He is playing out like a very familiar, very basic narrative. What I dread is the next step; success.

Moses, Hercules, Arthur, Horus, Beowulf. And now Trump?

when it comes to Trump.