You may recall that Bobby Knight was fired at Indiana University when he grabbed 19-year-old freshman Kent Harvey by the arm and lectured him after the student addressed him by saying “Hey, Knight, what’s up?” during a chance meeting on campus in 2000. Knight was on a zero-tolerance policy for roughing up students, and that was it. “You’re fired.”
So why does Donald Trump presumably get a free pass for this tweet?
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Republicans in the state of Indiana. This is country where basketball hoops are visible in two out of every three driveways — or, as Ted Cruz calls them, basketball rings.