Vice President Kamala Harris and her party’s championing of football could cost them the election, according to a piece in the left-wing magazine The Nation that warned Democrats’ attempt to co-opt the iconic sport — which supposedly symbolizes conservatism, violence, and a brand of American “hypermasculinity” — could backfire by alienating younger, more progressive voters.
In a Monday essay titled “The Dark Side of the Democratic Party’s Embrace of Football” and authored by The Nation‘s sports editor Dave Zirin, the magazine slammed the Democratic Party’s “embrace” of football as a symbol of patriotism during its 2024 convention last week, owing to the sport’s brutality.
My latest piece @thenation – the Democratic Party’s attempt to embrace football has a dark side rooted in the sport itself. https://t.co/Gkhbx6j3bh
— Dave Zirin…
