Crazy ‘sex bans’ and self-care snowflakes: MAUREEN CALLAHAN says Trump victory meltdown proves liberals are more delusional than ever
Well, well, well: the republic stands. And bewildered liberals can’t handle it.
Supporters cried outside Howard University as Kamala Harris conceded. The exclusive Fieldston School of Columbia, Harvard and New York offered students days off to grieve – “hold space,” as they like to say, for what might have been.
Georgetown University opened “self-care suites” where students and faculty could color, play with Legos and receive milk and cookies “in recognition of these stressful times.” Northwestern and Princeton did the same.
This are our future leaders?
The Guardian offered its employees free advice. Seemingly hardened reporters traumatized by peaceful, fair and free elections need safe spaces and psychotherapy!
Vogue noted that New Yorkers dressed from head to toe in black last Wednesday, expressing “heartache” and “profound disappointment in those who voted against our interests.”
Well, well, well: the republic stands. And bewildered liberals can’t handle it.
Supporters cried outside Howard University as Kamala Harris conceded. The exclusive Fieldston School of Columbia, Harvard and New York offered students days off to grieve. (Image: Ella Emhoff cries during Harris’ concession speech).
The left never gets it. They didn’t get it after Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, and they certainly don’t get it now.
For anyone who doesn’t just read the New York Times, listen to NPR, or watch MSNBC, Donald Trump’s victory wasn’t just palpable. It was inevitable.
Despite ultra-tight polling that barely got off the ground – two myths destroyed, that of the perfected voting system and the ‘hidden Kamala voter’ – the Mail predicted a Trump victory.
In any case, there remain hidden Trump voters, even in previously deep blue areas such as Manhattan, which turned almost ten points red.
Trump has also torn down the Blue Wall, taking over every swing state and making major gains with black and Hispanic voters.
Make no mistake: this is a long overdue repudiation of all that is woke, but also a stifling left-wing media policy language, thinking and policy, exemplified by none better than Maria Shriver, herself a Democratic royal.
Here she was, calling herself a journalist and hosting a town hall with Kamala three weeks ago, facing an audience member who raised her hand and said, “Can we ask a question?”
“Unfortunately not,” Shriver said. “Hopefully I can ask some questions that might be on your mind.”
Talk about patronizing – a kind of fascism, if you like. By the way, have you noticed how quickly all those media outlets calling Trump the new Hitler dropped 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 are being lied to, and they know the open contempt the liberal elites have for them.
Just listen to mocking 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 and blamed ‘uneducated white women for the loss of Kamala.
Meanwhile, a “blue bracelet movement” has emerged – an accessory for “progressive” women to signify that they did not vote for Trump. Actually to indicate that they adhere to the ‘right thinking’.
Others shave their heads, delete their dating apps and refuse to have sex for the entire Trump term. Divorce and voluntary hysterectomies are also recommended.
You couldn’t make this up. But that is the one side of America, we are told, that is rational, intellectual and sane.
The left never gets it. They didn’t get it after Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, and they certainly don’t get it now. For anyone who doesn’t just read the New York Times, listen to NPR, or watch MSNBC, Donald Trump’s victory wasn’t just palpable. It was inevitable.
But instead of taking this Trump thing for what it is – a wholesale rejection of trans madness, of soft-on-crime policies and an unfettered border – the left prefers a racist, sexist, xenophobic America to blame that is too stupid to understand their message. .
The point is: America gets the message. We understand it all too well. We know we have been lied to, and we are sick and tired of it.
Just as Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow defended Joe Biden’s competence with this stunner: “He rides a bike!”
Or Joe Scarborough, who doubled down on his MSNBC show, with typical liberal politeness in March: “F**k you if you can’t handle the truth.” This version of Biden is – intellectually and analytically – the best Biden ever. Not even a close second. And I’ve known him for years… If it wasn’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.”
White House press secretary Karine-Jean Pierre insisted that everything was fine. “He’s as sharp as ever,” she said — a week after that catastrophic June debate with Trump.
Kamala, in February 2024: “Our president is in good shape, in good health and ready to lead in our second term.”
And much of the mainstream media is wondering why they are losing their eyes, subscribers and credibility by the minute.
They dismissed Kamala’s terrible internal polling, excused her boring, highly controlled interviews and ignored the accusations against her husband, Doug Emhoff, that the Mail broke.
As Axios founder Jim VandeHei told Semafor this week: ‘The verdict is not debatable: half the country finds traditional media biased and often useless. They feel like reporters are treating Republicans like criminals and Democrats like friends in need.”
It is traditional media that reinforces 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 have finally been released from Word Salad City — “should be prepared to deal with criticism without saying he would lock people up for it.’
Tim Walz, whose uselessness was matched only by his subterfuge, also called Trump “fascist,” “un-American,” and at the end heavily suggested that Trump supporters are Nazis.
Even Oprah Winfrey — who now denies receiving a $1 million payment from the Harris campaign, though her production company certainly did — couldn’t resist.
“It’s entirely possible that we’ll never get the chance to vote again,” she said at a rally last week.
The upside to putting up with this high-minded sludge: Celebrities no longer matter. Oprah, made a billionaire by Americans of all stripes, now has zero power when it comes to our politics.
And much of the mainstream media is wondering why they are losing their eyes, subscribers and credibility by the minute. (Photo: Harris with Oprah at a meeting last week).
The same goes for Taylor Swift, Julia Roberts, Beyoncé, Meryl Streep and George Clooney, who wrote that op-ed in the New York Times admitting that he and other party elites had known and reported on Biden for far too long. upwards.
Again: just like much of the media, which is currently ignoring another revelation that FEMA Supervisor Marn’i Washington ordered disaster responders to “avoid homes that promote Trump” in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton last month.
Imagine a FEMA director telling on-site assistants to ignore houses with Harris signs. The liberal media storm would be visible from space.
Instead, all we get is wonder, despair, and anger over Trump’s victory from privileged people like Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, the Sunday morning news shows, and all the other left-wing media.
Here’s a fact that sums up everything that’s wrong with the left: Years of shoving trans-orthodoxy down America’s throats has backfired.
One of Trump’s most effective campaign ads included Harris, during her 2020 presidential run, in which she said she supported taxpayer-funded sex change operations for prisoners.
The slogan: ‘Kamala is for “they/them”. Trump is in favor You.’
The success of that ad surprised even Team Trump. Common sense could have told Democrats that a large portion of the electorate is against irreversible surgery on children. They also don’t want boys and men in women’s sports and spaces.
In fact, 85 percent of voters in swing states said their top issue was abolishing trans orthodoxy.
‘That doesn’t surprise me [ad] resonated,” said Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, adding that his party should heed it.
Even socialist Senator Bernie Sanders admitted last week that Democrats have “failed the working class.”
Much of this election cycle was permeated by the intolerable phrase “consent structure”: the idea that “progressive” women should 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 of the matter.
It was all a big, fat, sharp lie.
It turns out that no one needs a “consent structure” when it comes to exercising that most fundamental of democratic acts: voting.
Or by rejecting the mainstream media that only serves as a propaganda arm of the DNC.
