Trump derangement syndrome: San Francisco can’t let baseball be baseball

Joshua Kushner. And not control of the team. A minority stake .

Apparently, that is enough to send parts of San Francisco’s activist and media culture into full panic mode. One Giants employee posted a video from Oracle Park turning in their uniform and quitting because Kushner was buying into the team. Social media lit up with complaints about “MAGA ownership” and Trump-world influence invading one of San Francisco’s most beloved civic institutions.

San Francisco is having a civic nervous breakdown because the brother of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law is buying a minority stake in the Giants. Steven Hirsch One Giants employee posted a video from Oracle Park turning in their uniform and quitting because Kushner was buying into the team. Getty Images There is just one problem.

Joshua Kushner is not exactly Steve Bannon in a Giants cap. He has historically donated heavily to Democrats and has occupied a very different political lane than his brother Jared and the Trump orbit. But nuance never stood a chance here.