Legacy news outlets were now sluggish in the wake of Donald J. Trump’s extremely unavoidable threat of winning the presidency in the early days of Wednesday morning, reaching 2016-level meltdowns. For them, Harris ‘ humiliating defeat is private, because it’s just as a humiliation for them as it is for her.
Donald Trump has spent his entire political job trying to demonize him, according to the corporate media industry. Hand-in-hand with triple-letter state authorities and Liberals, they ran a fake painting Trump as a Russian shill based on absurd rumours commissioned by his team’s campaign in 2016. They continued to spread the lies throughout his administration, winning each other Pulitzers for it. And they’ve just increased their efforts since then.
The problem they’re reckoning with tonight is this: those efforts did n’t work. Because of how well-known they are than the Clinton family’s list of enemies, they are no longer able to handle Americans by controlling their intake of information.
A TV executive , anonymously fretted last week that” If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this press, and we’ve lost this market completely. A victory for Trump would mean that the media was in its present form.
That was the case with the commercial media even before the election results were announced. When Jeff Bezos allegedly told The Washington Post to withdraw a Harris support, he was aware of it. But now, they ca n’t avoid it.
Since the last presidential vote, the press have screeched endlessly about Trump “inciting an uprising” at the U. S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They produced movies that compared Trump to the Ku Klux Klan. They depicted Trump as the leader of a terrorist attack as opposed to a president who delivered a discourse and urged his followers to freely protest.
The results from Tuesday night are a clear sign that Americans did n’t agree with it.
With support from a rejected account planted in The Atlantic, the internet made Trump out to be a “fascist” and constantly compared him to Hitler. When Trump held a gangbusters march at Madison Square Garden, they screeched that he and his followers were evidently Germans because they gathered at the same place that Nazi supporters after rented — along with Frank Sinatra, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Billy Joel, Beyoncé, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter.
They said he would be a tyrant and that he posed a danger to democracy. That did n’t work either.
Americans witnessed the collapse of the Russia collusion fake. They witnessed Trump a four-year government and a peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden, but they failed to live up to their totalitarian estimates. When Covid insanity broke out in 2020, they saw the media and their Big Tech allies morally shut down accurate information and scatter lies — about the disease ‘ origins, Democrats ‘ lockdowns, mask mandates, and forced vaccines, to name a few.
They witnessed the same thing happen when the media claimed the Biden family’s influence-peddling scandal was Russian disinformation just before the 2020 election. Americans saw Trump hand out french fries, exchange jokes and family stories with their favorite podcasters, and talk about how much he loves America as the media screamed” threat.” ( In terms of podcasts, Joe Rogan’s interview with Trump received nearly two-thirds of the views of the ABC presidential debate. )
The more the media piled on the rhetoric the less Americans bought their lies. But that is n’t working anymore. Instead, the more maniacally the media amp up their attacks, the less they appear to be sticking.
If the past eight years— and the first few hours of cope-streaming from TV Wednesday morning — are any indication, the legacy press is n’t planning on repentance. They do n’t feel obligated to represent Americans, they feel entitled to control them. The loss of that control is making them apoplectic.
Kamala Harris is only the second-biggest loser of the night. Her media shills are recovering from wounds that will take much longer to heal. After all, they were always the ones attempting to overthrow Trump, and after eight years, they are now more humiliated and weak than ever.
Elle Purnell is the elections editor at The Federalist. Her work has been featured by Fox Business, RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women’s Forum. She was given her B. A. in government from Patrick Henry College, with a journalism minor. Follow her on Twitter @_etreynolds.
