Them: "woke has to be stopped!"
Also them: "stop stopping them! What they're doing is good actually!"
:bonk:
The president of the United States should have better things to do with his time than throwing the weight of the federal government around to force a local sports team to change its freaking name, but what do I know.
When it comes to the authoritarian dimension, I would argue that using this kind of leverage to force the president's will onto others is a move which should only be used in pursuit of meaningful policy goals, rather than singular, symbolic, petty causes.
And like I've said: while the lefty activists cry wolf all the time, the Redskins are a case where the woke criticism at least had some tiny grain of truth to it. Not enough to warrant the original name change if you ask me, but it still doesn't make for the ideal case to symbolically fight back against wokism.
To be perfectly clear: I would (very marginally) prefer the Commanders to change their name back to Redskins, but this goal is not nearly important enough to justify the federal government breaking a fly on the wheel like that. It isn't even important enough to warrant the president's attention full stop. If this stance makes me a "woke cuck" in your eyes, so be it.