Watching Democrats try to figure out how they lost the election is a lot like watching a baby try to take their first steps – sometimes they get very close, then they fall right on their ass. They get there eventually; balance isn’t that difficult to achieve. However, unlike walking, Democrats will lose their life balance repeatedly throughout their lives, even though people do not forget how to walk. Some of them remember how to walk, while others may never stand upright again.
Let me say from the start I’m enjoying the hell out of this. Most of these leftists on cable news are not only shocked that they lost, but they hadn’t even entertained the prospect as a possibility once Kamala Harris entered the race. It was theirs; the Green Jacket was a tap-in putt away.
If Donald Trump had lost, there would not have been the same level of shock in conservative media. Fox has people on staff who are genuine Democrats, and the possibility of a Harris victory was regularly mentioned on their airwaves. MSNBC is a series of bobblehead dolls glued to the dashboard of the family trickster as it goes down a dirt road; everyone is always nodding in the same direction.
When your “Republicans” hate the Republican nominee and the party more than the Democrats do, your worldview might not be as “diverse” as your tramp stamp tattoo suggests you like to celebrate.
However, some people on the left are coming to terms with what happened and either admitting their own mistakes to regain some credibility or admitting to their audiences that they lied without actually admitting that they lied.
The first part of that is exemplified by the gang at Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough famously lectured his audience with a big “Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever,” right before Biden soiled himself on the debate stage and was forced out of the race by, well, people like Scarborough.
“If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it,” Scarborough finished. A quick word of advice: if someone is honest, they don’t spend their time insisting to you that they are honest. They don’t need to. Just like truly funny people don’t spend their time insisting that they’re funny, or smart people insisting that they’re smart – they just are those things and people know it. People insisting they are anything tend not to be those things, hence all the attempted convincing.
Now, Scarborough is lecturing his dwindling audience about how far out of touch the progressive left has gotten and how that’s why they lost. He’s not wrong; it’s just odd that he never said anything like this before November 5th. But after that, he discovered inflation and the cost of butter.
He is not an honest man. He is trying to reclaim his credibility and maintain his job if Comcast sells his network.
The second category is exemplified by Ezra Klein of the New York Times. In a post-election podcast, Klein admitted he knew all along that the issues upon which Republicans were campaigning and conservative media was reporting while the left denounced them both as liars were actually true – crime is up in blue cities, inflation is real and harming people, etc.
“The sense of disorder rising, right?” Klein said. “Not just crime, but homeless encampments, trash on the street, people jumping turnstiles in subways, crazy people on the streets. You talk to people, and they’re mad about it. They feel it’s different than it used to be.”
Before the election, no media leftist would dare to have said anything of the sort. It was all, “Crime is down,” even though the books had been cooked by not having the statistics from the largest Democrat-controlled cities in the country where the crime problem lives. They knew it, but they insisted otherwise anyway because they wanted to win.
Illegal aliens committed fewer crimes than we stinking Americans, they insisted, even though the collection of data on the immigration status of criminals was forbidden in blue states, making it impossible to prove. That also made it impossible to disprove, which was the point. “Migrants are a boon to the economy,” they cried while demanding more money from the federal government to help support these bipedal economic stimulus packages that were starting to bankrupt city budgets with their “economic growth.”
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knew they were lying, but the Democratic Party audiences preferred to dine on the empty calories of continued agreement rather than hear the truth. Some believed it, and others simply and desperately wanted to. Reality is not dependent upon your belief in it, nor is it influenced by your dislike of it; it just is.
Democrats are learning this lesson – waking up in bed next to an un-made trainwreck with cigarette breath and 40 more pounds than they noticed while hammered and regretting those last three shots of Jager. Good for them.
The real question isn’t just how far they will go in admitting they lied to their followers; it’s whether or not those followers care long-term that they were lied to. They have to know it. MSNBC has lost half its viewership in the immediate aftermath of the election. Will they come back to realize they’d been lied to for years?
Probably, yes. The “walls were closing in on Trump” the entire four years of his first administration, and they kept returning. Robert Mueller had the goods on Trump and was going to put him away…and they came back. Some people just want to be lied to, need to be lied to. Those are the people for whom reality does no favors. That’s who Democrats are.
There will always be an appetite for the empty calories of choir preaching in media; it’s most of what passes for “news” these days. Today, it was Democrats; two years ago, Republicans stood lonely on a dry beach, wondering what happened to that “red wave.”
Enjoy it now; our victory is huge and important, but get ready to fight for everything many elected officials promised they’d do before we called their bluffs. But also recognize that the people who’d preached to you about what the mob at MSNBC did to their audience were only right by luck. They don’t have any more insights or clairvoyance than the other side; they just happened to guess right now. Beware of anyone who only ever tells you what you like or what you want to hear.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.