Addressing the reaction to President-elect Trump’s big win
BY: JACK JURSNICH
Opinions Editor
Donald Trump has been elected the 47th President of the United States, and the nation has erupted in both cheers and tears. Republicans have taken the House and Senate majority, and left-wing pundits are in shock to see not only Trump’s landslide win but also his win in the popular vote, too.
For as much as liberal media (CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC) equated Trump to Hitler and facism, their reaction to Trump’s win is a little less dramatic than they made it out to be. I thought they’d be in hiding from ‘the next Hitler’ but they were a lot calmer than I anticipated. They were more surprised to see that Trump won bigger than he did in 2016 and 2020, especially in groups like women, blacks, and hispanics, but a lot of pundits so far have attributed this increase in Trump voters to things like misinformation and “uneducated white women.”
For some time, left-wing media and their contributors have been calling Trump supporters dumb and uneducated, even President Biden called them all “garbage” just days before the election. But given the seismic shift in Trump voters since previous elections, especially in demographics that usually vote blue, it’s hard to attribute this shift to stupidity, rather I think it’s just that people aren’t buying what the left is selling.
Democrats would call Trump voters racist yet they were the ones who put white men into a box by coming up with White Dudes For Harris. Democrats would call Trump voters sexist, yet they tried appealing to male stereotypes like football and gaming, and viewed women voting for Trump as neither “strong” nor ”intelligent.”
Every chance liberal media got to throw some weak shots at Trump, they took it. Trump said earlier this month essentially that Liz Cheney should see war herself if she really wants to put boots on the ground, but liberal media lied and clipped this to make it look like Trump wanted her executed. Trump said earlier this year that he’d be a “dictator on day one,” and liberal media spun it as an admission that he’d be a dictator, when really what he meant is that he’d overturn policies by executive order just like Biden and every other president did before.
I could go on for hours about what out-of-context, braindead take that the left wants to attribute to Trump, but my point is that if Democrats had a solid shot they could throw at Trump then it would have worked. He has gone through the courts and the hectic media sphere for years yet he still walks out stronger than he’s ever been before, meanwhile Kamala Harris can’t even make it to an interview on time. Only one of these candidates held themselves like a leader, and this election overwhelmingly has decided that that person is Donald Trump.
So the left can keep saying that Trump voters aren’t strong and educated enough, but no matter how much they try, they can’t gaslight the intuition of half the country into believing that they’re not smart enough to know what’s right. The people can’t prove it, but they know when they’re being lied to. Liberal media can call Trump a “threat to democracy” all they want, but on election night, it was democracy that proved them wrong. I think the best news out of this election is not just Trump’s win, but that the increase in support over the past eight years is perhaps an indication that the American people are starting to wake up.
