MLB Falls Silent On Voter Suppression In China, Say, or Cuba

Editorial of The New York Sun | April 3, 2021 

While Major League Baseball is pulling its All-Star game out of Georgia, it turns out it’s been expanding into — wait for it — Communist China. Never mind that one can’t bring water to voters on line in the People’s Republic. No, of course not. There are no long lines of voters in China. It’s run by communists. Talk about voter suppression. They deny the right to vote to everyone, no matter what their race.

MLB doesn’t care. Commissioner Rob Manfred pulled the summer All-Star game out of Atlanta a little more than a day after President Biden said he would “strongly support” the move to protest Georgia’s latest election reform law. The election law might, as the Wall Street Journal notes in a terrific editorial this morning, offer more voting opportunities than New York, say, or Delaware. MLB doesn’t care.

Commissioner Manfred is playing pure Democratic Party politics. MLB is best seen as a partisan institution. Rob Manfred doesn’t have any serious engagement in respect of free elections. In 2016, he jumped on the bandwagon when President Obama went to Cuba. The commissioner went along, and the Tampa Rays played — and won — an exhibition game in Havana. It shocked the pro-freedom Cuban community in America..............To Read More....