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    How NFL Players Can Avoid Playing Into Trump’s Hands

    The protestors are embracing the spirit of the Founders, but leaving themselves vulnerable to being demagogued.
    by Conor Friedersdorf Jul 21, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Scott Audette / Reuters

    Given my druthers, NFL players returning to the gridiron this fall would restart their protests against unjust police killings in a new way: They would stand tall during the national anthem while conspicuously holding mini flagpoles with a trio of tiny banners: the Stars and Stripes on top, signifying their patriotism, Black Lives Matter in the middle, signifying their cause, and beneath it a flag declaring, “Donald Trump = cowardly identity politics + political correctness.”

    That equation would be

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