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Philadelphia – It is a division that, if not as old as time, at least as old as the average experience of Americans in high school: fighters against basketball players. And as president Donald Trump returns to PennsylvaniaKeystone of his sweeping as swing, it is not surprising that he is happening in the NCAA fight championship.
As Eagles Nick Siriani Chief CoachTrump seemed to finish just a few years ago. But just when the birds finally kept the Lombardi trophy, Trump returns to Philadelphia by triumph.
Scoop: Jim Jordan Representative to join Trump in the Men Men’s fighting championship.
The Center City hotels and restaurants were full of wrestling families this week, and at the elite level of division I, the fighters, coaches and even parents, in most cases, seemed squats, solid and muscular types to which you could break an ash block.
I joked with one of the coaches that in high school in Philadelphia I played basketball and we all stayed away from the fighters, because, “once they put you on the ground, forget it.” He assured me: “Yes, it is still so.”
The Penn State Nittany Lions pose with the trophy after winning the Wrestling title of the NCAA at the T-Mobile Center. (Reese Strickland-USA Today Sports)
The appearance of Saturday in the final of the grip tournament is an extremely intelligent policy of the White House. As with all regular Trump appearances in Combat Sports Events, Trump guaranteed an ovation, but this time in one of the most blue cities in the United States.
Now, a cynical could point out that most of the event attendees are not philadelphia, and that is true. But, on the other hand, Penn State Blue and White were everywhere in the city this week, since that university is the absolute power of sport.
Columnist Salena Zito, who has forgotten more about Pennsylvania no Fhilly than most people will know, placed it in this way to describe the usual scene in Bloomsburg High School, where Senator Dave McCormick now was a star in the tape:
“The fight here is everything, and all you have to do is try to go to a wrestling game here and try to find a place to stop, much less to sit down,” he said.
United States-13: The elected senator Dave McCormick, Republican of PA-PA. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, INC through Getty Images)
It is true, Philly is known by the 5 Big 5 basketball schools, for Wilt Chamberlain and the Temple confrontation zone. But in the rest of the State, it is wrestling and football Los Reyes.
I was more careful than usual when mentioning politics. After all these families had spent thousands of dollars to come to Philadelphia to talk about wrestling, not appear in the “McLaughlin Group.” But when I asked if they were excited that the president came, they all said with enthusiasm yes.
“It’s really an honor for the boys,” a wrestling mother from Iowa told me. There was no need to ask where someone was, he was stamped in all his clothes.
What I learned about wrestling at its highest level in those chats explained why Trump is popular among sports athletes and enthusiasts.
These fighters are possibly the best and most workers in America. The ancient Greeks would certainly have thought about it. However, there is no professional draft day in which they are applied with millions of dollars.
These guys are in the gym 15 times a day because they love it, even if they are not allowed to wear garbage bags to do weight. And that is exactly the type of hard work and dedication that many Trump voters see in the president.
In October, I wrote in these pages that Philadelphia was Kamala Harris Alamo, the only place where he could put a position in a state that was clearly losing, even if the surveys could not see it.
At this time, it is difficult to see how hate, and let’s be honest, it is mainly on the left, it can be handled to allow Americans who love or hate Trump spend their time in peace and harmony.
She won the city of fraternal love because, as Nancy Pelosi expressed once, a glass of water with a D after her name would win in Philadelphia. But Harris did not win enough to compensate for the great losses in the rest of the Commonwealth.
As during the elections, there is a strong division between Philadelphia that hates Trump and the rest of the state where he has strong support, and if something, that division is growing more acute and more pointed.
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Until recently, the division in the United States had separated those who thought Trump was effective, although a bit exaggerated, and those who worried would be authoritarian.
Today, it is among the people who think that Trump is a great president, full stop, and those who really believe he has already become a dictator. That is a distant, distant, major gulf, and explains the anger and violence that we have seen more and more.
From time to time in high school, there would be a party or an event, and the fighters were there along with the ballets, and in the correct circumstances, we could tolerate, or even enjoy the company of the other.
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At this time, it is difficult to see how hate, and let’s be honest, it is mainly on the left, it can be handled to allow Americans who love or hate Trump spend their time in peace and harmony.
But that does not mean that it cannot happen. After all, this old type of basketball had a great time with the crowd of wrestling. Even if I was from time to time, furtively reviewing March’s madness supports on my phone.
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