Media liberals savage Kamala as Trump picks skilled hard-liners

I’ve now learn 587 items on why Kamala Harris acquired clobbered, so I contemplate myself an knowledgeable.

I’ve additionally watched infinite cable segments wherein left-leaning pundits both grappled with the fallout from the Democratic wipeout, or urged their colleagues to turn into a part of the Resistance, with Rachel Maddow telling the “free press” to “stand and struggle.”

As Donald Trump strikes shortly to fill high administration posts – and newspaper items warn of the horrors to come back – the denigration of Harris, and Joe Biden, has reached fever pitch.

And but, most of the media liberals who praised the Kamala operation as “flawless” and “unbelievable” now mainly say it was a no-good, horrible, very dangerous marketing campaign. That makes clear they knew this all alongside, however wouldn’t say so, as a result of they had been defending the vp as a means of making an attempt to maintain Trump out of the White Home. That is one more blow to the media’s plummeting credibility.

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Listed below are a number of the media post-mortems:

Andrew Sullivan: “How might a whole left-liberal worldview be extra comprehensibly dismantled by actuality? And but, the first response amongst my very own liberal buddies was rage on the voters. They texted me to insist that Harris misplaced due to white folks — white girls, specifically.” 

Maureen Dowd: “Some Democrats are lastly waking up and realizing that woke is broke…

“Kamala, a Democratic lawmaker informed me, made the ‘colossal mistake’ of working a billion-dollar marketing campaign with celebrities like Beyoncé when most of the struggling working-class voters she wished couldn’t even afford a ticket to a Beyoncé live performance, a lot much less a down cost on a house.”

Nellie Bowles, the Free Press, mentioned Harris “made me livid, as a result of she’s a great and superb one that ran a very horrible marketing campaign. It was a marketing campaign that exemplified the entire delusions of the fashionable Democrats: that you simply by no means must say what you stand for (as a result of folks ought to simply assume you recognize what’s finest for them), that it is best to by no means reply onerous questions or seem with questionable figures, and that the one challenge any American lady ought to care about is abortion…

“The actual villain of this story is Zombie Biden and his corrupt household, who the media handled like heroes the entire means via.”

David Brooks: “There can be some on the left who will say Trump received due to the inherent racism, sexism and authoritarianism of the American folks. Apparently, these folks love shedding and wish to do it repeatedly and once more…

“Can the occasion of the colleges, the prosperous suburbs and the hipster city cores do that [disrupt the Republicans]? Properly, Donald Trump hijacked a company occasion, which hardly appeared like a automobile for proletarian revolt, and did precisely that. These of us who condescend to Trump ought to really feel humbled — he did one thing none of us might do.”

Politico: “How can Harris’s defenders grumble about being dragged down by Biden when she couldn’t discover one substantive coverage challenge on which to interrupt from the unpopular incumbent? She waited three months, blurted out on ‘The View’ that she couldn’t consider any distinction with Biden.” 

Nationwide Evaluate: “She was a awful candidate with a fair lousier message, for those who can name it that. The one factor she needed to do was promote herself, and she or he couldn’t handle even this elementary process.”

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Properly, you get the thought.

In a 107-day marketing campaign, Harris couldn’t persuade sufficient Individuals that she was genuine, that she might be commander-in-chief, or that she had deserted the far-left insurance policies (equivalent to legalizing border crossings and backing inmate trans surgical procedures) of her final marketing campaign. She foolishly hid from the press for a month, fostering the impression that she couldn’t go off script.

Now nearly everybody – besides these blaming her loss on racism and sexism – is saying what I’ve been saying for 3 months. Harris by no means ought to have picked Tim Walz, who did nothing for the ticket. The trans challenge damage her and she or he by no means picked a difficulty, that or one thing else, to separate from the left wing of her occasion. She anxious an excessive amount of about hurting Joe’s emotions.

The VP tried to concentrate on kitchen-table economics, equivalent to together with her price-gouging plan. However regardless of low inflation and unemployment proper now, many Individuals nonetheless felt they had been paying increased grocery costs and preferred Trump’s financial document higher than Biden’s.

It could be there’s nothing Harris might have accomplished to cease the Trump juggernaut, given his hijacking of working class and minority voters.

Now the president-elect is transferring shortly to faucet his high appointees, having instantly named marketing campaign supervisor Susie Wiles as his chief of workers – the primary lady ever to carry the job.

Tom Homan, who was ICE director in Trump’s first time period, would be the border czar, not a giant shock. Homan can be in control of the mass deportation program, and when requested if there was a strategy to keep away from separating households, as occurred final time, he mentioned certain – deport all of them collectively.

Stephen Miller, who ran the hard-line immigration coverage within the first time period, is predicted to be named deputy chief of workers – a promotion, first reported yesterday by CNN, that in all probability doesn’t convey the clout he’ll have as a trusted member of Trump’s inside circle.

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I had been informed days in the past that Elise Stefanik, a GOP congresswoman from upstate New York, would go into the administration. And yesterday, Trump tapped her to be U.N. ambassador. She has expertise within the George W. Bush White Home.

Then there are insiders who’re the topic of hypothesis. Howard  Lutnick, a Wall Road CEO, is being touted by some as a potential Treasury secretary, however has his arms full as a co-chair of the transition.

Late yesterday, Trump selected former Lengthy Island congressman Lee Zeldin to run the EPA. He’s a mainstream conservative who has crusaded towards extreme environmental laws and gotten a lifetime rating of 14% from the League of Conservation Voters. The selection of Zeldin was first reported by the New York Put up, and he informed Fox Information that the administration will “roll again laws” which can be inflicting companies to “battle” and are “forcing” them to maneuver abroad.

After that, he tapped Florida GOP congressman Mike Waltz as White Home nationwide safety adviser, which doesn’t require Senate affirmation. Because the Wall Road Journal first reported, he’s a China hawk and Ukraine skeptic. “Stopping Russia earlier than it attracts NATO and due to this fact the U.S. into conflict is the correct factor to do,” Waltz wrote. “However the burden can not proceed to be solely on the shoulders of the American folks, particularly whereas Western Europe will get a move.” (Trump has now lowered by two the Home Republicans’ anticipated small margin.)

Oh, and Politico says some Dems are already jockeying for 2028 (Josh Shapiro and Gavin Newsom) or being talked about (Pete Buttigieg and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear). Already? Can’t we get a break? 

So my takeaway is that for all of the media chatter a few lack of guardrails, Trump is to date choosing severe folks with severe expertise. (Wiles hasn’t labored in Washington for the reason that Reagan years, however her position is totally different.) They’re, after all, additionally loyalists who will do his bidding. 

RFK Jr. will get a giant title, nevertheless it’s not clear whether or not Trump will observe his far-out recommendation on vaccines and fluoride.

And Elon Musk can be in control of nearly every little thing, and the world’s richest man has deluged X with a whole lot of pro-Trump posts (and a few high-profile liberals are bailing).

However essentially the most hanging second was Trump’s publish saying Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo would not be becoming a member of the administration – not that anybody was anticipating they might be.

In his posting, the president-elect mentioned he loved working with each of them and thanked them for his or her service.

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My response was: Did any individual steal Trump’s telephone? The phrases fool and moron didn’t seem.

Possibly this can be a new tone from an incoming president who lastly feels vindicated. We’ll see how lengthy it lasts.