Are You F*cking Kidding Me?

Created
Thu, 28/11/2024 - 01:00
Updated
Thu, 28/11/2024 - 01:00
“Gaslighting of Trumpian proportions” It’s infuriating. The media narratives post-Nov. 5 focus on what Kamala Harris did wrong in her upbeat, mere three-and-a-half month presidential campaign. What did Democrats do wrong? How did they lose this group, that group, etc. How must they reinvent themeslves after a sufficient period of sackcloth and ashes? “Democrats Lost Their Base and Their Message,” declares the New York Times’ Nate Cohn. Trump’s reelection means “the end of the Democratic Party as we knew it.” Really? Millions face violent deportation, Ukrainians face losing their country, Gazans face continued slaughter, and the world faces the collapse of NATO and the rise of fascism American-style because Democrats have a messaging problem? And the 77 million Americans who chose those outcomes (by a “landslide” of 1.6 points)? Their hands are clean? Mehdi Hasan is not buying it either. He issued this rant against media narratives that Democrats veered too far left: The ‘moderates’ got *their* candidate in every single election in which the Republicans nominated Trump: 2016 Clinton, 2020 Biden, 2024 Harris… and they lost to Trump two out of three times. And now they’re going to blame *the left* for that? No f*cking way. “There was nothing left-wing about Harris,” Hasan reminds YouTube. Clearly, Democrats need to make more inroads in rural America where Republicans eat their lunch. Democrats need to advertise their accomplishments more. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Tuesday night mentioned how Alaska’s state ferry system will get replacement ferries and on-ship wifi that no one will…