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Sometimes, God uses unexpected means to change people’s hearts. Over the weekend, recently repatriated celebrity basketball inmate and deep-talker Britney Griner —jailed in a Russian gulag on a drug charge and rescued by the Biden Administration— stood for the National Anthem.

It might not seem like news, but race activist Griner famously always used to kneel for the Anthem, right up until the wily Russians put the unpatriotic player in prison, for trying to sneak some pot through customs (purely for medicinal purposes).

Not only did Britney stand this time, she placed her hand over her heart, and cried.

The cynical take is that Griner is faking it. Maybe, but the reason why she would fake this sentiment is unclear. For me, I’ll take the W. May Griner’s rediscovery of a tiny spark of patriotism inflame a whole new generation of love and affection for our Great Country.

Public school might not have taught Britney much about the benefits of Constitutional due process, but the Russians sure did. Progress.