{"id":96335,"date":"2020-02-26T07:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T12:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=96335"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:17","slug":"miracle-on-ice-team-struggles-with-backlash-from-donning-keep-america-great-hats-at-trump-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96335","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u2018Miracle on Ice\u2019 team struggles with backlash from donning \u2018Keep America Great\u2019 hats at Trump rally.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>From the Washington Post:<\/p>\n<p>The team became the latest group entangled in the fierce cultural fight over the meaning of the Trump campaign\u2019s most successful piece of merchandise, which critics view as a symbol of hate and racism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9S9FYaNUsFY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The \u201cMiracle\u201d team is the latest group to become entangled in the fierce cultural fight over the meaning of the Trump campaign\u2019s most successful piece of merchandise, one that has raised tens of millions of dollars since 2016, according to Brad Parscale, Trump\u2019s 2020 campaign manager. Last spring, Parscale said, the campaign\u00a0surpassed 1\u00a0million sales\u00a0of the $25 red \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d hats, featuring the 2016 campaign slogan in white lettering. That was before Parscale\u2019s team unveiled a 2020 update with the new slogan, \u201cKeep America Great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Trump campaign officials this week declined to provide an updated tally of how many hats have been sold, their ubiquity was evident at the Las Vegas rally, where\u00a0it appeared that a majority in the crowd of thousands\u00a0were wearing them.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond their fundraising prowess, the \u201cMAGA\u201d and \u201cKAG\u201d hats have served as potent marketing for the president\u2019s specific brand of nationalistic, us-versus-them politics, through which he has risen to power by provoking and accentuating the nation\u2019s deep divisions of race, ethnicity and gender.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh please, there is no &#8220;fierce cultural fight&#8221; over this hat.\u00a0 I have seen people wearing those things in all kinds of places, nobody seems to notice much.\u00a0 Even seen a few in Freeport, Grand Bahama recently.\u00a0 We do not have a deep division of race, ethnicity, and gender in this country.\u00a0 It simply does not exist in America.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The MAGA slogan has been impugned by critics as an implicit desire to return to an era in American history when the white male ruling class did not feel threatened by minorities and women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe there are still people who don\u2019t get that it means, \u2018Keep America white,\u2019 and \u2018Keep America free of Mexican immigrants,\u2019?\u201d said Matthew A. Sears, a professor of classics and ancient history at the University of New Brunswick in Canada who has written critically about the Trump hats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>HAHAHAHAHA, the Derp goes on.\u00a0 I do not feel threatened by anyone because of the color of their skin, but I do live with a very scary woman.\u00a0 I live with a scary Soviet that spent four and a half years going through the immigration process the correct way.\u00a0 I do not know of one person that wants to &#8216;Keep America White&#8217; and &#8216;Keep America free of\u00a0 Mexican immigrants&#8217;.\u00a0 I do know a bunch of people, including myself and the former Soviet,\u00a0 that do not want hoards of people pouring across the border with no accountability.\u00a0 I am sure you could fill a bus somewhere with idiots that do believe those things, but you could fill a bus full of people that think boiled okra is good food.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, any victory over a Soviet needs to be celebrated.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Miracle-on-Ice.mp4\" width=\"896\" height=\"672\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/nhl\/once-cold-war-heroes-miracle-on-ice-team-struggles-with-backlash-from-donning-keep-america-great-hats-at-trump-rally\/ar-BB10mzX3?ocid=spartandhp&amp;fbclid=IwAR170xwgfZPo6A7t0bWDrTFuk_-7UW3xVid2OOE-okGJG-SeCi3fFYYZ15U\">Once Cold War heroes, \u2018Miracle on Ice\u2019 team struggles with backlash from donning \u2018Keep America Great\u2019 hats at Trump rally<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: The team became the latest group entangled in the fierce cultural fight &hellip; <a title=\"\u00a0\u2018Miracle on Ice\u2019 team struggles with backlash from donning \u2018Keep America Great\u2019 hats at Trump rally.\u00a0\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96335\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u00a0\u2018Miracle on Ice\u2019 team struggles with backlash from donning \u2018Keep America Great\u2019 hats at Trump rally.\u00a0<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":84585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,328,469,131,47,6,478,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cold-war","category-diversity","category-donald-trump","category-i-hate-hippies","category-liberals-suck","category-media","category-none","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96340,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96335\/revisions\/96340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}