Far-left commentators and celebrities have exploded with fury over the shellacking that President-elect Donald Trump gave Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday.
Trump leads Harris 277 electoral votes to 224, exceeding the required 270 needed to win. He might well run the table of all the crucial battleground states, with three — Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada — all still trending red. If Trump takes those 32 votes, his total goes to 309. With Alaska’s almost certain three votes, he will reach 312.
Yet Trump also won the popular vote 77.4 million to 66.4 million, a decisive 51 percent to 47 percent victory.
Far-left hate-Trump extremist Keith Olbermann blamed Russia. Former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill blamed “angry” Amercians. And The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart said Americans have given up on “democracy.” Has-been entertainer Bette Midler blamed stupid voters.
Olbermann: Russia Did It
Still obsessed with Russian election interference years after the Russia Collusion Hoax of 2016 was unmasked as a Hillary Clinton campaign hit, Olbermann appeared to have lost his marbles.
“Russia has committed an act of war against this nation,” Olbermann inexplicably claimed. “We were attacked last night … as certainly as if Russia had bombed and not merely threatened with a terrorist attack 32 polling stations in one Georgia county, many in another Georgia county, between them, the home of one-quarter of the entire black population” of Georgia.
He also claimed interference in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona.
McCaskill, again, blamed angry Americans. Trump “figured out that anger, and frankly fear, were way more powerful than appealing to people’s better angels.… The better angels went on vacation.”
Trump, she said, stoked fear of immigrants and “transgenders,” and persuaded voters that he wasn’t prosecuted for real crimes but instead persecuted for bucking the establishment. She was particularly unnerved that Trump made significant gains with Hispanic men despite so-called hate speech about them, and, even more disturbingly, among “urban” voters, meaning black men.
That fear of Harris, and anger about four years of open borders, ruinous inflation, and high gas and food prices cost her the election apparently didn’t occur to McCaskill.
CNN commentator Van Jones wondered how black women will fare in Trump’s America. Trump might have stumped the Ruling Class elite, he conceded, but “I’m thinking about the people who are not a part of anybody’s elite, who are hurting tonight.”
Continued Jones:
There are African-American women who know a little bit about being talked down to, and a little bit about having their economic dreams crushed, who tried to dream a big dream over the past couple months and tonight, they’re trading in a lot of hope for a lot of hurt. And they were hoping that maybe this time, this time, one of their own could be seen as worthy. And once again, they are facing rejection. And that hurts. They thought tomorrow morning, they’re gonna walk out with their shoulders back a little bit. They’d be able to breathe for the first time, and feel like they belong some place.… It’s gonna be harder than it should be tomorrow for them to hold their heads up.
Harris, a Jamaican-Indian, is not “one of their own,” of course.
A communist-turned-Democrat star, Jones also fretted about immigrants and the parents of “transgenders.”
Capehart, Williams, and Midler
Homosexual Capehart was nearly in tears, twice pronouncing himself “mystified.”
One mystery is how Americans voted for a four-time-indicted-convicted-on-24-felony-counts former president who held what Capehart, two weeks ago, falsely claimed was Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
“I can’t help but wonder if the American people have given up on democracy simply because of what he told us, what he wants to do, simply because of what the Supreme Court decided in terms of immunity and he has said he … wants to go after his political enemies,” Capehart whined. “I am your retribution. So if indeed, what Fox is reporting, if that ends up being true, and ends up being the case, then this conversation about who we are as a country will pop off in earnest.”
Fox News commentator Juan Williams said Trump’s “bro strategy” worked not only on young white men but also young black men who like Trump’s macho image and way of treating women.
The has-been Midler offered a quote from long-dead columnist H.L. Mencken, who called voters stupid because a “moron” typically occupies the White House.
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand,” Mencken wrote:
So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost.… All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
What that makes President Joe Biden and his former boss, Barack Obama, or what it makes Harris, Midler did not say.
The Leftism X feed posted this response:
Stunned and Sad
“So the results are in,” actress Jamie Lee Curtis wrote on Instagram. “Many will be celebrating, possibly even gloating over their victory. Many will be stunned and sad with the terrible feelings of the loss.”
The Halloween actress predicted the victory “means a sure return to a more restrictive, some fear draconian time.”
Even worse:
Many fear their rights will be impeded and denied. Many, minority groups and young people will be afraid. Gay and trans people will be more afraid. We know that many women will now find it difficult to get the reproductive healthcare that they need and deserve. For all those people there will be those who will help you. Me included.
Married With Children actress Christina Applegate falsely claimed that Trump jeopardized her daughters’ rights.
“My child is sobbing because her rights as a woman may be taken away,” she wrote. “Why? And if you disagree, please unfollow me.”
Replied LifeSiteNews, “maybe teach her the truth.”
Others such as Harris fanboy George Clooney, who helped push Biden out of the race, were silent.
