One month since the 2024 election and Democrats still at a loss to explain it
“Get over it already”.
In the 30 days since the 2024 campaign came to an abrupt end, the hours have seemed to pass quickly and impossibly slowly at the same time, the personnel announcements from the Trump transition team coming as both surprising and exhilarating to conservatives as the president elect fills his inner circle with boat-rockers, system disrupters and establishment busters all at once.
Yes, it was only a month ago today that Americans went to the polls to change their own world and send a loud and clear message to their arrogant Democrat keepers that they weren’t about to accept the status quo and elect a candidate whose basic message was “you gotta trust me”, offering little in terms of plans or specifics for what she intended to do if granted another term of the Obama/Biden interminable presidency.
Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance ran a winning campaign and deserved the victory they earned, taking advantage of new media opportunities and doing the little things necessary to appeal to the available undecided voters. No wonder the election post-mortems have (mostly) been positive. Looking back, it’s hard to be unsatisfied with any of the moves they’ve made thus far.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz lost convincingly, yet they’re still perplexed about how it happened. And they haven’t accepted defeat easily in their own minds. In an opinion piece titled, “The Harris media ‘double standard’ that wasn’t”, W. James Antle III wrote at the Washington Examiner:
“Top officials in Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign are protesting a media ‘double standard” as they try to explain to liberal audiences what went wrong. On the liberal podcast Pod Save America, multiple Harris lieutenants complain that Harris was pilloried for her light media schedule while President-elect Donald Trump largely eschewed traditional media...
“Harris’s deputies now complain that 107 days wasn’t enough time to make their case or roll out their candidate. But it was clear for much of that time period that they hoped to take advantage of an abbreviated schedule. They also argued at the time they were waiting until voters started paying attention, after Labor Day or even later.
“Both candidates sought favorable media attention. Trump’s success despite a smaller advertising budget and more contentious relationship with much of the press and Harris’s failure is noteworthy, but not the product of a double standard.”
Yes, you read that correctly. In their desperation to ascertain what went so spectacularly wrong despite the liberals’ plethora of advantages – significant money margin, friendly media coverage and a virtual incumbency regardless of which Biden/Harris team member headed the duo – Democrats won’t get over it, move beyond and blame themselves.
The gist of their gripes revolves around suggesting Trump didn’t do enough “traditional” media like Kamala did. Whereas conservatives observed that Kamala wouldn’t answer unscripted questions from any source, Democrats objected to Trump sidestepping the outdated establishment networks completely.
Really, Democrats, that’s all you have?
Antle highlighted six reasons why Trump’s strategy alone didn’t actually tip the balance in the campaign. Trump was already well known to the national electorate, so the fact he eschewed regular interviews from the so-called “traditional” media was hardly a double-standard. Trump was extremely visible to anyone who sought to see him.
Meanwhile, where was Kamala? Did she and her handlers believe a single appearance on Fox News (her disastrous interview with Brett Baier) would justify carping there was a media double standard? If Democrats keep complaining about such trifling worries, they’ll never learn the hard lessons they need to absorb. And Republicans will maintain their newfound advantages, to Trump’s – and the nation’s -- benefit.
Was Kamala actually drunk?
You’re forgiven if you haven’t seen it, but, for some as-yet unexplained reason Democrats put on an exhibition last week featuring the losing 2024 candidates, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, basically thanking each other and giving themselves permission to move on from the election results in order to… do something… but stay involved. What, run again?
If you’re like me, you found it both enlightening and frightening to relive the part of campaign 2024 that was so scary. It seems like ancient history now, but this woman (and her idiot running mate) came within smelling distance of winning the election. Without the concerted effort to put Trump over the top, none of the great things that have happened since would have been possible.
Kamala Harris as president? The apprehension was real. We should remind ourselves often.
In the meantime, what would motivate Kamala to put out this simple production? Was she trying to raise the last bit of money to cover her debts? Was she keeping her avenues open for another run in four (or more) years? Is she establishing a foundation to further the “woke” cause? Did Dougie Emhoff put her up to it? Or was she merely intoxicated and emboldened by alcohol?
The world will probably never know.
Democrats figured a Trump 2.0 administration would be bad (for them), but this bad?
Compounding the angst Democrats are dealing with is the fact victor Donald Trump hasn’t hesitated to choose the individuals he aspired to as far as tapping loyalists and unabashed implementers to work alongside him to bring the Make America Great Again agenda to fruition.
There aren’t any cowards or shirkers in Trump’s world. Tom Homan takes over for Kamala as border czar. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will set to work on dismantling the federal bureaucracy and the soft-spoken and unassuming Pam Bondi will almost surely earn the requisite votes to take over as Attorney General. Don’t allow appearances to fool you – Bondi is a tiger, and just as ferocious (in a good way) and relentless.
Whenever a Democrat (supposedly) wins a presidential election and begins the process of choosing Washington swamp dwellers who will fill the shoes of some other party honk, they at least attempt to maintain the ruse that the new leaders are “bipartisan” and will fulfill their duties in the most uncontroversial manner possible.
Remember how the wholly unqualified former mayor of a medium-sized midwestern city, Pete Buttigieg, was tapped by Biden for Transportation secretary because the fellow 2020 presidential candidate-turned Biden surrogate was a big fan of model trains as a boy? Democrats must’ve had fun at Christmastime playing with their presents that year because Pete’s childhood fondness was the only think Buttigieg brought to the table in terms of his credentials to oversee a department as vastly important as Transportation. Anyone recall the supply chain issues as a result of the miscasting of the gay DEI hire?
Or how about the heinous Merrick Garland brought in to oversee the Justice Department? Garland swore he would keep politics out of his justice decisions, but once in place, play politics is about all he did. It was clear from the outset Merrick intended to exact revenge on all Republicans due to being denied a Supreme Court seat for which he was nominated by Barack Obama.
These were Washington hires regardless of their places of origin. Coming off their suspicious 2020 win, Democrats were bent on reestablishing the power of Washington over the people. The opposite is happening now. Trump carefully selected each person for their respective positions – places where they can disentangle the bureaucracy as much as go to work on Trump’s agenda.
It may take a few months for Americans to realize what they’ve got now. The Democrats will demagogue and fight each step of the way. So will the “traditional” media. Here’s thinking Trump won’t be any more willing to simply toss them a bone just for the sake of it.
And the country will be better off for it.
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