Michael Reagan (and Michael R. Shannon) whined in a July 29 Newsmax column:
Your columnists long ago had given up hope that the Washington NFL franchise would re-embrace its original name and become the Redskins again.
The fact is the team would probably still be the Redskins if it had been owned by anyone other than Daniel Snyder.
Snyder’s reported pricing practices were seemingly just fine with NFL owners. And they were overjoyed when Snyder continually meddled in football operations, because that make the ‘Skins easier to beat.
But the sexual harassment lawsuits and investigations may have been too much, and too far, for the NFL, which was and is desperately trying to attract more women and effeminate men to its fan base.
The pressure on Snyder to conform became so great “The Danny” threw the chief under the bus in 2022 in the hope of placating the left wing mob.
Although mob is hardly an accurate term.
As we wrote in 2015 here, Washington fans don’t have problem with the name.
The problem comes from a woman who lives 2,000 miles away in Arizona and claims the name Redskins is a racial slur.
Reagan then cheered that President Trump tried to meddle in a private business:
Still, in spite of reality and the desires of your humble columnists, the Redskins name appeared to be gone but not forgotten. Until this month and this new president.
With grit teeth the left wing, race-obsessed “journalists” at ESPN report, “President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington’s NFL team if it does not restore its old name of the Redskins, which is considered offensive to Native Americans.”
Trump posted on Truth Social, “I may put a restriction on [the Washington Commanders] that if they don’t change the name back to the original ‘Washington Redskins,’ and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, ‘Washington Commanders,’ I won’t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington.”
[…]There is a real question as to whether or not Trump can interfere with the stadium deal. Getting Congress on board with the giveaway was a good idea, because it passed a law ratifying the deal. And that same law may block Trump’s good intentions.
Reagan concluded by lamenting:
It looks like the Redskins name change is this summer’s Greenland annexation.
A fun, optimistic idea while it lasted, but Trump has moved on.
The cultural jellyfish that own the team are ruled by social leftism and the focus grouped, leaden Commanders name will stay.
Trump’s meddling in the name of a private business is “good intentions? Really? And abandoning a racist name is “social leftism”?
Reagan thus follows in the footsteps of the Media Research Center in whining that the team name was changed — which omits the fact that indisputable conservatives like Charles Krauthammer supported the change.