Earlier this month, the right found the latest battle in the culture wars: America’s pastime. When Major League Baseball moved the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver after Georgia passed a wave of voter suppression measures, the outcry was sharp.
“Baseball was supposed to be America’s pastime: happy, unifying, fundamentally nonpolitical,” Tucker Carlson brayed. “President [Biden] is willing to destroy even something as wholesome as the country’s traditional game purely to increase [his] power.” Texas Governor Greg Abbott refused to throw out the first pitch of the Texas Rangers’ first home game of the season. Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel Romney tweeted what passes for a joke on the right: “Guess what I am doing today? Not watching baseball!!!!”
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