The players for Team USA men’s hockey are American heroes. These young Americans, with their gap-toothed smiles and American flags, are exactly what America needs right now. A strong dose of patriotism.
The news has been filled with so much negativity lately, from angry, privileged middle-aged women blowing whistles in the faces of law enforcement agents to New York police officers being pelted with ice-crusted snowballs. The men’s hockey team should be something we can all unite around, but, no, liberals just couldn’t help themselves. They couldn’t set aside their anger for even one day. They just couldn’t do it.
Wisconsin Democratic governor candidate David Crowley’s first instinct was to trash the team over a President Donald Trump joke. “Everyone laughed,” he raged, which made it clear he wasn’t just bashing the president – he was also bashing the team. Crowley apparently believes everyone in the viral Team USA/Trump video is a raging sexist against women; one wonders whether he can even define one? The media and Democrats raged about FBI Director Kash Patel expressing excitement over the great American victory. The horrors. How dare a top U.S. official support a great American team? A USA Today columnist sniped that the men’s hockey players “utterly failed to meet the cultural moment.”
Wrong. They met the cultural moment exactly. Whether it was singing along to Lee Greenwood at a Florida nightclub or expressing pride in being an American, these young men have gotten it exactly right. “These guys are reminding kids all across the nation that it’s okay to be unapologetically patriotic,” one X user wrote.
Elite patriotic awareness from the US gold medal hockey team during Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” last night. You’ve gotta skate to where the puck is going, not where it is. pic.twitter.com/o6ze96AHuh
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 24, 2026
Get over it, liberals. You’ve lost the plot. Are you angry about EVERYTHING?
It’s fitting that the last time the US men’s hockey team won gold was 1980, defeating the Soviets in the “Miracle on Ice.” The 2026 victory echoed the ’80s, a period of American exceptionalism and pride.
It’s unconscionable that liberals are now directing their relentless hate and anger at these courageous young men, who represent everything America is supposed to stand for: Grit, hard work, the American dream, excellence, brotherhood, family. There are no participation trophies in men’s hockey. You might get your teeth bashed in, but you get back up and score the gold-medal winning goal.
Here at Wisconsin Right Now, we applaud the men’s team. We stand by them. They are the role models that America so desperately needs right now. They haven’t missed a step. (The women’s team deserves applause for its athletic achievements also; that team missed an opportunity to rise above the cacophony of negativity and attend the state of the union, putting country first.)
Don’t ever let the Left tell you America doesn’t have culture.
We, in fact, have the greatest culture there is!
God bless the USA! 🇺🇸
pic.twitter.com/UPpBgDf2b9— Brilyn Hollyhand (@BrilynHollyhand) February 22, 2026
“Everyone’s giving us backlash for all the social media stuff today, but people are so negative out there and they are just trying to find a reason to put people down and make something out of almost nothing,” hockey star Jack Hughes said. He’s the guy whose teeth were bashed in.
He added, “People are so negative about things. I think everyone in that locker room knows how much we support them [the women’s team], how proud we are of them, and we know the same way we feel about them, they feel about us.”
“Yeah, we’re excited. Everything is so political. We’re athletes. We’re so proud to represent the U.S. and when you get the chance to go to White House and meet the president, we’re proud to be Americans and that’s so patriotic. No matter what your views are, we’re super excited to go to the White House tomorrow and be a part of that,” Hughes said.
Yes, these young men have met the cultural moment – exactly.
