|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
[Want even more content from FPM? Sign up for FPM+ to unlock exclusive series, virtual town-halls with our authors, and more—now for just $3.99/month. Click here to sign up.]
Donald Trump has been reelected, and the self-appointed arbiters of acceptable opinion in the establishment media are struggling to adjust to new realities. As they do so, they’re giving us a textbook display of what it looks like to go through most of the classic stages of grief: denial, anger, depression, and acceptance. And even though Trump’s victory was comprehensive and inarguable, we know from long experience that they’re going to have the hardest time with that last one.
Denial was on abundant display on Monday, the day before the election, when PBS told us happily that “Harris has a 4-point lead over Trump in final PBS News/NPR/Marist election poll.” NBC crowed: “Trump’s once enthusiastic crowds dwindle in election’s closing days.” The UK’s Express took aim at a supposedly failing candidate, saying: “Donald Trump baffles with incomprehensible ramble as North Carolina rally fails to fill up,” and “Donald Trump suffering ‘memory lapse’ and ‘butchering’ speeches ahead of election.”
See? It was going to be all right. PBS quoted Lee Miringoff of the Marist Center for Public Opinion, assuring jittery leftists that we were in for a repeat of 2020: “We’ve gone through all of this to get back to… pretty much where you ended up four years ago.”
When that didn’t happen, the anger began. On Wednesday morning, the New York Times was full of headlines revealing the Paper of Record’s barely concealed rage that the American people had dared to reject their expert guidance. Voters had made a bad choice and needed to be scolded, and the Times was ready with the wagging finger.
“Donald Trump Returns to Power, Ushering in New Era of Uncertainty,” one headline warned. “America Hires a Strongman,” said another. The rest of the world was unhappy with our recklessness: “Four More Years of Unpredictability? The World Prepares for Trump’s Return.” The Washington Post was just as enraged, noting on its homepage that Trump “Becomes second president to win nonconsecutive terms, first felon.”
The classic stage of grief that follows anger is bargaining, but the leftist media blew by that one completely. These people, after all, are the ones who polarized and embittered American political discourse in the first place, painting Trump in such lurid terms that massive segments of the population are utterly terrified at the prospect of this neo-Hitler returning to the Oval Office. They’re not interested in compromise or any kind of bargaining; as always, they’re out for total control and the absolute destruction of those whom they consider their enemies.
And yet their foremost enemy defeated them. So they skipped right on to the next stop in the grief scale: depression. “Democrats in disbelief at Trump’s win,” lamented the WaPo. “The mood at Harris’s watch party at Howard University started joyful but turned darker,” the Post reported sadly. “At 12:45 a.m., Cedric L. Richmond, the co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign, came to the microphones to tell the crowd that the vice president would not speak until the morning. The remarks are expected to be her concession speech.” Violins up.
MSNBC, meanwhile, had massive sads over what Trump might do now, and the fact that there didn’t seem to be any way to stop him: “We can expect Trump will pardon the Jan. 6 rioters and summarily fire the prosecutors who tried to hold him accountable. Having been immunized by the Supreme Court, he may instruct the Department of Justice to go after his political opponents. He will likely abandon Ukraine and begin the process of weakening our alliances. A newly empowered Trump can, if he wishes, go about trying to gut or kill Obamacare outright, while also trying to impose massive new tariffs on the economy.”
But surely, decent folk could stop Bad Orange Man, no? No: “We also know that the guardrails will not be sufficient, because they were not before. If they had been, none of this would have happened. Neither the impeachment process nor the justice system blocked his return to power. And now the ultimate guardrail has failed.” Yeah, you’re going to have to put up with a president who doesn’t share your socialist internationalist values; cry harder.
Amid all the lamentations, there was at least one hint of the final stage. Former Sen. Claire McCaskill showed it, however grudgingly, on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” saying: “I think we have to acknowledge that Donald Trump knows our country better than we do.”
This is not to say that McCaskill was giving Trump credit for political acumen; she was just saying that the country itself was as evil as Bad Orange Man. “I think he figured out that anger and, frankly, fear were way more powerful than appealing to people’s better angels. Anger and fear were going to work in this election. Whether you’re afraid of immigrants or afraid of people who are trans, he figured that out. And I think we all thought everyone’s better angels would prevail. Turns out the angels went on vacation since Donald Trump came down the escalator, and they haven’t returned.”
In those graceless and insulting words, however, there was a glimmer of acceptance. McCaskill may have been the first establishment leftist to admit, however backhandedly, that Trump might know something they don’t. Could this be the pathway to the left backing away from the insanity, hatred, and deviance it has embraced, and coming back to something close to reasonable values? Nah. Not a chance. But at least they are beginning to realize what happened to them on Tuesday.
Here’s a cogent question:
What is it in the psyche of democrats that compels them to think that they’re entitled to win elections and by extension, entitled to have power and control? Whatever that “it” is goes beyond self righteousness and ideology. Narcissism is certainly a part of it but there’s more to it than that.
Whatever that it is, I suspect that it’s driven by a deep rooted undiagnosed psychosis stemming from some childhood trauma.
It comes with societal repudiation at puberty. Their amygdala is mutated and can not be repaired.
But seriously, I think that rhetoric becomes habit and then there us some neurological basis or result of it. Theres no question their amygdalas don’t function like the rest of us. Critical thinking, logic, taking the view of others is subsumed by hair trigger amygdala activatec rage.
If humans were all as incapable of reassessing assumptions, problem solving, and compassion as today’s left, the species would have died out as cavemen. Perhaps with abortion, trans and few life skills the left might die out. But we just cannot wait for that attrition.
I sense you have the same problem as I: close relatives who are beyond the reach of sanity, and predictably jump into any trendy fire.
Operation Wall Street
Pussy Hat Protests
Antifa Riots
Black Lives Matter Riots
With young, sick relatives, it’s “next”, “next”, “next” …
You touch on something I’ve often pondered but never really fleshed out. Why do leftists embrace the societal illnesses that have proven, over time, to doom the species? They, the leftists, have all kinds of names for the accepted standards that have assured our survival at the most base levels. Most of them are found in the “phobia” dictionary but are not limited to that category. As is their wont, they pervert terms to assign the exact opposite meaning, “progressive” being one of them. To me, their form of “progressive” appears to be dragging us backward toward extinction.
I think ‘childhood trauma’ gets way more blame than it should do.
It’s fun to listen to leftist loons blame each other for this wonderful rejection of their nasty narrative about America. They become their own enemies. Like I said, it is funny.
the calumny of the left wont be on vacation after the drumming they have just received , they will just regroup after licking their wounds and will continue the war , its a spiritual war and most americans dont understand the implications . the winners are to my amazement to gracious in victory . offense not defense is the moral of the sad story the republicans have chosen prior to the don coming onto the scene . the relentless demonization of any conservative moral stance has few victors . the deep state will destroy anyone who doesnt toe the authoritarian line . just because they lost this skirmish doesnt mean they will stop . like all terrorists it is a minor setback because that is the power of evil . marxists and terrorists read from the same textbook . kimberly strassels book [ resistance at all costs ] tells you what you need to know and the [ case for trump ] by v.d. hanson .
American academia is not the only institution the Neo-Marxists infiltrated and subsumed over time. Much of today’s mid and upper level government management (i.e., bureaucrats, aka, deep state) have been inculcated, via academia, with Marxist ideology.
“America Hires a Strongman,”
Sounds like a good idea to me.
Exactly. About time America spit in the face of her “Better angels”, and realized that appeals to these better angels were a cynical ploy to manipulate the electorate into voting away their sovereignty.
History Books: “THE TAMPON THAT SAVED AMERICA!”
It’s time for pelosi, to be investigated for THEFT.
” Will the Left now back away from the insanity, hatred, and deviance it has embraced ” ?
That’s an easy one, NO. They will double down.
That picture of Pelosi tells it all. It should be hung in the Smithsonian.
From the New York Slimes Washington Compost Slime and Newsreek comes WHINE WHINE WHINE WHINE WHINE
Propagandists hope that their lies will not be discovered or at least keep it hidden as long as possible. When it is exposed in a few days, not only does it fail but also exposes them to the public they are trying to deceive.
Assuming that the same tribe in foreign countries that publish here, It doesn’t surprise me that there propaganda is exposed. Americans have learned through past experience that news papers, TV, radio, and all the other electronic media will present ONLY their side of ANY discussion. This is why Elon Musk buying Twitter was such a shock to them. He joined the other side! He at least tries to publish the truth!
“X” marks the spot. The left sees it as the ultimate target in the war on “mis” and “dis” information. What better way to perpetuate the lie than to demonize and attempt to silence facts that expose your agenda? It appears, for now, govt agencies will have to depend on the MSM to do the dirty work.
“Will the Left now back away from the insanity, hatred, and deviance it has embraced?”
In a word “No”.
You can’t fix stupid.
Blatantly fake tears from Pelosi. She has made her millions and will never suffer the consequences of her awful liberal policies. She doesn’t care at all about the Republic but she has to put up the facade of caring that Kamala lost. What she’s really facing is the fact that she was behind the coup to remove Joe from the ticket and supported the worst candidate ever and her party lost power as a result. But the tears aren’t real, nor are they because she “fears” for America
Unfortunately, she’s set the standard for the Democrat Party. “By whatever means necessary!”, just don’t make it so obvious. When will someone throw a bucket of water on this Wicked Witch from the West to end this national nightmare?