Well, well, well: the republic stands. And dumbstruck liberals can’t cope.
Supporters wept outside Howard University as Kamala Harris conceded. Columbia, Harvard, and New York’s exclusive Fieldston School offered students days off to grieve — ‘hold space’, as they love to say, for what might have been.
Georgetown University opened ‘self-care suites’ where students and faculty could color, play with Lego and have milk and cookies ‘in recognition of these stressful times’. Northwestern and Princeton did the same.
These are our future leaders?
The Guardian offered its employees free counseling. Ostensibly hardened reporters traumatized by a peaceful, fair and free election need safe spaces and psychotherapy!
Vogue noted that New Yorkers dressed in head-to-toe black last Wednesday, expressing ‘heartbreak’ and ‘profound disappointment in those who voted against our best interests’.
The left never gets it. They didn’t get it after Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 and they sure don’t get it now.
For anyone who doesn’t just read the New York Times, listen to NPR or watch MSNBC, however, Donald Trump’s win wasn’t just palpable. It was inevitable.
Despite super-tight polls that barely budged — two myths destroyed, that of the perfected polling system and the ‘hidden Kamala voter’ — the Mail forecast a Trump win.
If anything, there remain hidden Trump voters, even in formerly deep-blue areas such as Manhattan, which swung almost 10 points red.
Trump also demolished the Blue Wall, took every single swing state, and made major inroads with black and Hispanic voters.
Make no mistake: This is a long-overdue repudiation of all things woke as well as a stifling left-wing media policing language, thought and policy, exemplified by none better than Maria Shriver, herself Democrat royalty.
Here she was, calling herself a journalist and hosting a town hall with Kamala just three weeks ago, to an audience member who raised her hand and said: ‘Are we going to be able to ask a question?’
‘You’re not, unfortunately,’ Shriver said. ‘Hopefully I’ll be able to ask some of the questions that might be in your head.’
Talk about patronizing — a kind of fascism, if you will. By the way, have you noticed how swiftly all those outlets calling Trump the new Hitler abandoned that little talking point? Or the one about the end of democracy, Trump a dictator on Day One?
The American people have had it. They know they’re being lied to, and they know the open contempt liberal elites have for them.
Just listen to sneering race-baiters Joy Reid and Sunny Hostin on ‘The View’.
Abortion, Reid said after the election, ‘was not enough to get white women to vote for Vice President Harris’. Hostin went further, blaming ‘uneducated white women’ for Kamala’s loss.
Meanwhile, a ‘blue bracelet movement’ has emerged — an accessory for ‘progressive’ women to signify that they didn’t vote for Trump. Really, to signify that they adhere to ‘right-think’.
Others are shaving their heads, deleting their dating apps, and refusing to have sex for the entire Trump term. Divorce and voluntary hysterectomies are also recommended.
You couldn’t make this up. But such is the one side of America, we’re told, that’s rational, intellectual and sane.
Yet rather than take this Trump thumping for what it is — a wholesale rejection of trans insanity, of soft-on-crime policies and an untrammeled border — the left prefers to blame a racist, sexist, xenophobic America that’s too stupid to get their message.
Here’s the thing: America gets the message. We get it all too well. We know that we’ve been lied to, and we’re sick to death of it.
Just as Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow defended Joe Biden’s competency with this stunner: ‘He rides a bike!’
Or Joe Scarborough doubling down on his MSNBC show, with typical liberal politesse back in March: ‘F**k you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden — intellectually, analytically — is the best Biden ever. Not even a close second. And I’ve known him for years… If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.’
White House press secretary Karine-Jean Pierre insisted all was fine. ‘He’s as sharp as ever,’ she said — one week after that catastrophic June debate with Trump.
Kamala, in February 2024: ‘Our president is in good shape, in good health, and is ready to lead in our second term.’
And much of the mainstream media wonders why it sheds eyeballs, subscribers and credibility by the minute.
They dismissed Kamala’s terrible internal polling, excused her vapid, highly controlled interviews, and ignored accusations against her husband, Doug Emhoff, broken by the Mail.
As Axios founder Jim VandeHei told Semafor this week: ‘The verdict is not debatable: Half the country thinks traditional media is biased and often useless. They feel reporters treat Republicans like a crime beat and Democrats like friends in need.’
It’s a traditional media that ratified Kamala’s claims that Trump is a ‘fascist’ and ‘dangerous’.
‘This is a democracy,’ she haughtily told Fox News last month, ‘and in a democracy, the president of the United States, in the United States of America’ — whose citizens are, finally, released from Word Salad City — ‘should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying he’d lock people up for doing it.’
Tim Walz, his uselessness matched only by his prevarications, also called Trump ‘fascist’, ‘un-American’ and, in the final stretch, heavily implied that Trump supporters are Nazis.
Even Oprah Winfrey — who now denies taking a $1 million payment from the Harris campaign, though her production company sure did — couldn’t resist.
‘It is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again,’ she said at a rally last week.
The upside of enduring this supercilious sludge: Celebrities no longer matter. Oprah, made a billionaire by Americans of every stripe, now has zero power when it comes to our politics.
Same with Taylor Swift, Julia Roberts, Beyoncé, Meryl Streep and George Clooney, who penned that op-ed in the New York Times admitting he and other party elites knew, for far too long, that Biden was suffering major cognitive decline and covered it up.
Again: as did much of the media, currently ignoring another exposé that FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington ordered disaster responders to ‘avoid homes advertising Trump’ in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton last month.
Imagine a FEMA director telling aides on the ground to ignore homes with Harris signs. The liberal media firestorm would be visible from outer space.
Instead, all we get is wonderment, despair and anger over Trump’s victory from the privileged likes of Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, the Sunday morning news shows and every other left-leaning outlet.
Here’s a factoid that encapsulates everything that’s wrong with the left: Years of shoving trans orthodoxy down America’s throat has backfired.
One of Trump’s most effective campaign ads included Harris, during her 2020 presidential run, saying that she supported taxpayer-funded sex change operations for prison inmates.
The tagline: ‘Kamala is for “they/them”. Trump is for you.’
The success of that ad took even Team Trump by surprise. Common sense could have told the Dems that much of the electorate is against irreversible surgeries on children. Nor do they want boys and men in women’s sports and spaces.
In fact, 85 percent of voters in swing states said that their number one issue was abolishing trans orthodoxy.
‘I’m not surprised that that [ad] resonated,’ said Democratic senator John Fetterman, adding that his party should pay heed to it.
Even socialist senator Bernie Sanders admitted last week that the Dems have ‘abandoned working class people’.
Much of this election cycle was permeated by the unbearable phrase ‘permission structure’: The idea that ‘progressive’ women needed to allow themselves to vote against their husbands; or that Republican women needed to legitimize a vote for Kamala; or that the bastion of masculinity known as Tim Walz would convince otherwise misogynistic men to the cause.
All of it was a big, fat, pungent lie.
Turns out no one needs a ‘permission structure’ when it comes to exercising that most fundamental democratic act: Voting.
Or in rejecting a mainstream media that serves only as a propaganda arm of the DNC.