Gulfstream4 said:
World Cup fans love the USA. Why are Americans so surprised?
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/06/24/world-cup-tourists-love-america/90642942007/
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Europeans especially seem bewitched by the sheer bigness of it all, from the spacious Western grandeur to supersized gas stations like Buc-ee's.
It's adorable.
What's not so cute is the shock some of my fellow Americans seem to be feeling at these expressions of true awe and joy from our visitors. The pushback, largely from coastal liberal elites, revolves around this theme: Since Donald Trump is president, the rest of the world must feel the same shame and horror that we do.
They don't, though.
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Years of American hating leftist propaganda went poof in about two weeks
These "nuh-uh the World Cup" tourists love red states more..." and "nuh-uh they love blue cities more" online back-and-forths are so ridiculous and stupid.
World Cup tourism success - including the Mexico-Korea love affair that's not even in the US and has nothing to do with red states or blue cities - has been a great reminder that there is so much more that we have in common and that unites us - the world over - than what divides us.
WC tourists are living it up and having a great time literally everywhere - from taking over BoSox games at Fenway and drinking their way through pubs in Atlanta to visiting sleepy deep-South towns or West Texas ranches.
It's honestly been a really heartwarming reminder that we all need to get off screens and get out and touch grass and live and engage with other great people and music and cultures and traditions, not be defined by politicians with motives that don't align with ours, and social media algorithms that pit us against each other.
These summed it up well.
