San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the National Anthem ignited an incendiary controversy that showed no sign of cooling until the debacle of the 2016 presidential election hosed down everything else.  Americans should still be horrified — not by Kaepernick’s behavior, but by the reactions of too many other Americans of torch-bearing villager mentality who clearly have forgotten the heart of the freedom that they somehow imagine is threatened by the absence of rote obeisance.… Continue reading