To everyone wringing their hands and crying “woe is me” today, I suggest you take long hard look at what caused this result. If you don’t know Mark Halperin, I suggest you seek him out. Here’s what he said this morning:
"The Dominant Media won’t come close to taking responsibility for their role in helping Trump win, won’t fire those whose bias and incompetence has been on display for as long as a decade, won’t take the steps necessary to understand the Trump movement, and won’t reorient for the next four years in any meaningful way.
None of the Democrats who some pined for in 2024 to be their presidential nominee will play a significant role in trying to shape the party or the nation.
When honest political scientists study the dimensions of Trump’s win, they will realize that Trump’s remaking of the Republican Party in 2016 (turning it into a white working-class party) was nothing compared to what happened this time – turning it into a Black, Hispanic, white, young, independent working-class party.
The Lincoln Project leaders will do even less soul searching than the newsroom denizens of the Washington Post and New York Times.
The stories of how Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, the pasts of Harris and Doug Emhoff, the coverup of Joe Biden’s loss of mental acuity, and how the attempts to keep Trump off the ballot, lawfare, and other anti-democratic efforts aimed at stopping Trump ironically backfired will only be told if the right people get the right book deals." --- Mark Halperin. November 6, 2024
Posted by Roger O'Dea 11/6/2024
