Liberal horror at Trump’s victory is about to turn into election-denying rage
No one knows what’s next for America and the world following the victory of Donald Trump. But there is one thing we can say for certain: the meltdown of the Leftists is going to be epic.
It is going to be like nothing we have seen before. If you thought it was scary – or funny, perhaps – when beanie-wearing libs wailed in the streets after Trump’s first victory in 2016, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Already, the chattering classes’ bafflement at Trump’s win is giving way to spittle-flecked rage.
First there was the bewilderment, as captured in the frantic chin-scratching of every centrist dad’s favourite British podcasters, Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell, who have been trying to break America. Having predicted that Kamala Harris would win “comfortably”, Stewart and his fellow Mystic Megs in the pod empire are now struggling to process the return of Trump.
They’re not the only ones. There was a funereal tone to much of the TV coverage, as the media’s Kamala lovers tried, and failed, to make sense of this latest round of Trump-mania.
I envision many a Harris/Walz pin-wearer stumbling around New York and LA in a daze today, as they wonder how the oiks of the Rust Belt could do this to them.
As for the celebrities who endorsed Kamala and warbled their hits at her rallies – they’ll be baffled that there are so many Americans who care more for the economy than they do for Lady Gaga’s breathy paeans to “tenacious” Kamala.
Soon, the sadness will morph into seething. We can glimpse it already in the irate tweeting on social media, with the Left’s fuming about the “climate-denying” “racist” “lunatics” who voted Trump.
The thinkpieces will be next. It will be a tsunami of turbo-smugness as the aloof scribes of the commentariat pin Trump’s victory on “white men’s rage” or the masses’ misogynist dread of a female president.
Make no mistake: someone will get the flak. And it won’t be Kamala.
Instead of seriously assessing their own failure to win over voters, the Dems will point the finger at “low information” voters or sexist black men or those female voters who plumped for Trump and in the process betrayed their sister Kamala.
That’s what happened in 2016 when Hillary Clinton lost to Trump. People forget just how unwilling Hillary and her media acolytes were to accept the outcome of that election.
Hillary called Trump an “illegitimate president”. His win was “not on the level”, she said. She implied that it was Russian meddling that spirited The Donald to the White House the first time.
“You can run the best campaign… and you can have the election stolen from you”, she said in 2020.
This was before Trump lost the 2020 election and started crying about it being “stolen”. Yes, Hillary got there first. The Left commentariat condemned Trump as a crazy, oafish authoritarian for gabbing about a “stolen election”, overlooking that Hillary essentially did the very same.
Jimmy Carter said of the 2016 election that Trump “lost” and was only “put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf”.
How long until we see such swirling conspiracism following Trump’s latest win? How long before sleep-deprived talking heads on liberal news shows start bleating that it was the Russians again and Trump is a fake president?
In 2016, bitter Dems blamed women and minorities, too. Who can forget when Madeleine Albright said there was a “special place in hell” for women who failed to vote for Hillary?
Following her defeat, the media wrung its hands over the women who “rejected Hillary”.
There was such an intense blame game that even the BBC – no friend of Trump – compiled a “long list of who Hillary Clinton blames” for her defeat. It included the media, the FBI, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders. Everyone but herself.
Lev Golinkin, writing at NBC, described the Hillary clique’s depiction of Trump as an illegitimate president as a “Big Lie”. These liberal leaders are meant to place democracy “above all else”, he said, but they “grievously failed”.
Will Kamala Harris and the rest of the anti-Trump set likewise fail to respect democracy? Will they refuse to give their losers’ consent, without complaint, and accept Trump as the rightful president?
We are about to find out how much the Left really respects democracy. Whether they accept that millions of working-class Americans voted for Trump not because they are dumb or racist or Russian stooges but because they preferred him to Harris.
Consent, losers – democracy depends on it.