The days since the US presidential election have been fascinating. First was the eerie silence for a day, as the social media left retreated into a shell-shocked blackout. It couldn’t last, of course. Soon enough, leftist women were posting their teary TikTok videos, threatening to move to Canada, blah, blah, blah. It got even funnier: soon, crying white women were shaving their heads, while morbidly obese feminists vowed not to have sex while Donald Trump was in the White House.
Don’t threaten us with a good time, ladies(?)
Almost as entertaining are the left media’s attempts to ‘analyse’ the results. Which mostly consists of noticing at last what they furiously denied for years: Trump’s appeal goes far beyond the ‘deplorable’ blue-collar white males. Nor are voters playing the media’s obsessive identity politics game.
Most galling for them, though, is the shocking realisation that no one is paying much attention to the mainstream media any more.
Now, voting data is helping explain how that led to complexities, and what might have been perceived as contradictions, on election day.
Contradictions… only if you’re a mainstream media hack whose spent their entire life cozened in an echo chamber of left-wing groupthink.
Voters in key areas did not always vote on party lines and instead split away from the Democrats when it came to the presidential vote, even if they supported the party down ballot.
There were Americans who voted to support state-level reforms that protect legal access to abortion, while rejecting Kamala Harris and her women’s rights platform in the presidential race at the top of the ticket.
It’s… it’s almost as if voters are able to think for themselves!
An even more bitter pill for the left is the realisation that they can’t own brown and black people any more. It’s only taken the Democrats 160 years to realise that one.
Just a week before the election, a comedian at a Trump rally called the US territory of Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage”, and there was an assumption that could hurt Republican support among Latino and Hispanic voters.
But in Florida’s Osceola County where more than 56 per cent of the population is Latino or Hispanic, including a large subset of Puerto Rican voters, Trump flipped the county red for the first time in his three runs for office.
Perhaps the biggest shock for the media, though, is the realisation that almost no one likes or listens to them any more. The Democrats played by the old rules: raising over a billion dollars and spending it on advertising in the mainstream media. They also stuck to the script of celebrity endorsements – because, sure, at a time when Americans are struggling paycheck-to-paycheck, the one thing they need is a chorus line of multimillionaires telling them how great they have it.
When she was finally dragged, kicking and gibbering, into facing the media, Harris went with only the friendliest media imaginable. And still came across as clueless. Trump, by contrast, took on the toughest audiences, including the National Association of Black Journalists and a town hall of Latino voters hosted by Noticias Univision.
And, in a master-stroke that should have been a no-brainer, Trump sat down for a three-hour talk with the biggest podcaster in the world.
This week, Lara Trump said [Barron Trump] became the campaign’s “sleeper” agent […]
By all reports, Trump listened as his youngest child suggested he do three-hour interviews with podcasters, sit down with gamers and go after the voter who was consuming a lot of content, just very little of it from the likes of CNN.
Barron Trump helped his father go after the very online guy and if the young white men voter results are anything to go by, it was a resounding success.
Whatever you may think of Joe Rogan – I’m indifferent – he has a massive audience. He’s also a pretty good interviewer. Trump talked with Rogan for hours. Where a stridently combative MSM tends to fire Trump up, Rogan’s conversational style brought out the best in the president-elect. Trump was measured, reasonable – dare we say it, presidential.
Harris had her chance – Rogan emphasised that his show had gave her the same offer they did to Trump – but she chose CNN instead.
The results speak for themselves. Far more eloquently than Harris ever could.
