amazing. god bless the family tonight. thank you for saying those words, sean and i will take over where you left off. i am laura ingraham of this is the ingraham angle. a busy washington tonight. we ll start with this. the focus of tonight angle. here is my message. if you read one article this week about our political parties, it should be this piece just published by axios titled the great realignment. the gist is that republicans are becoming more populist while democrats are becoming more elitist. if these trends continue, the party of biden and pelosi is destined for historical losses in the next election cycle. not just in traditionally red states, by the way. shifts in the demographics of the two party supporters are arguably the biggest political story of our time. the big picture, republicans are becoming more working-class and a little more multiracial. democrats are becoming more elite and a little more white. huh. this movement of minorities toward the g.o.p.
what kind of sacrifices are you making? when you call yourself a human rights activist, social justice warrior, you cannot be signing a deal with the hypocrite company like nike when your shoes are being literally made by slaves in china. that s on acceptable. i did pay the price. what about lebron? laura: when you think about some of your former fellow players, i imagine there s a diversity of thought about all of these issues. yet people are afraid to speak out, aren t they? oh, my god, yes. i remember first time i started to speak out about the problems happening in china, one of my teammates walked up to me in the locker room and said you know this is your last year in the league. you re not going to play basketball after this year. it s over for you. i was really shocked. i m like, what are you talking about? when you criticize china, you could as size nike, you re not
i don t believe it s we believe in the power of engagement and power of sports to have connections with disparate people. hypocrisy. the nba is working with one of the biggest, you know, hypocrite company in the world is nike, if you look at nike, standing up for black lives matter, the latino community, and no asian hate in america but when it comes to china, because there is so much money and business involved they are silent. and also the same with the nba, unfortunately, because there is so much business and you know, i mean warriors, the owner just said it, they are scared to say a word because they know there are billions of dollars involved and there are people watching the nba in china, they don t want to hurt that. so i feel like morals over money. we need to stand up and someone had to do it, and companies, and
remains silent. i feel like what they are doing over there is a modern day slavery and people need to understand. nike is the biggest hypocrite company to meet in the world. people understand that every time you put your shoes on, you put that t-shirt on your back, there is so much blood and oppression on those items, so please, think twice before you buy any of their stuff. let me quickly ask you, you have called out lebron james for putting money over morals. here s how he responded after the lakers played your celtics friday night. i think if you know me i don t really give too many people my energy, you know, and he s definitely not someone i would give my energy to, you know, try to use my name to create an opportunity for himself. he s always kund of had a word or two to say my direction. he had his opportunity, i saw