Mike is a senior advisor for Government Relations at The Heritage Foundation. Olympic gold medalist and two-time World Cup champion soccer player Megan Rapinoe delivers remarks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on March 24, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
She and the woke left want all women’s professional sports (not just the Olympics) salaries to be artificially inflated to match the men’s.
There is no barrier to playing soccer on sex grounds, let alone a justification for the White House to make it its priority to increase access.
This one is a lot simpler than politicians care to admit: women’s professional soccer isn’t profitable because there aren’t many people who want to watch it.