The
most amazing part of this well written piece is the fact Maureen Dowd,
a very liberal columnist
from the New York Times, wrote it!
Election Therapy
From
My Basket of Deplorables
The
election was a complete repudiation of Barack Obama: his fantasy world
of political correctness,
the politicization of the Justice Department and the I.R.S., an
out-of-control E.P.A., his neutering of the military, his nonsupport of
the police and his fixation on things like transgender bathrooms. Since
he became president, his party has lost 63 House
seats, 10 Senate seats and 14 governorships.
The country had signaled strongly in the last two midterms that they were not happy. The Dems'
answer was to give them more of the same from a person they did not like or trust.
Preaching
— and pandering — with a message of inclusion, the Democrats have
instead become a party where incivility and bad manners are taken for
granted, rudeness is routine, religion is mocked and there is absolutely
no respect for a differing opinion. This did not
go down well in the Midwest, where Trump flipped three blue states and
44 electoral votes.
The
rudeness reached its peak when Vice President-elect Mike Pence was
booed by attendees of "Hamilton" and then pompously lectured by the
cast. This may play well with the New York theater crowd but is
considered boorish and unacceptable by those of us taught
to respect the office of the president and vice president, if not the
occupants.
Here
is a short primer for the young protesters. If your preferred candidate
loses, there is no need for mass hysteria, canceled midterms, safe
spaces, crying rooms or group primal screams. You might understand this
better if you had not received participation
trophies, undeserved grades to protect your feelings or even if you had
a proper understanding of civics. The Democrats are now crying that
Hillary had more popular votes. That can be her participation trophy.
If
any of my sons had told me they were too distraught over a national
election to take an
exam, I would have brought them home the next day, fearful of the
instruction they were receiving. Not one of the top 50 colleges mandate
one semester of Western Civilization. Maybe they should rethink that.
Mr.
Trump received over 62 million votes, not all of them cast by
homophobes, Islamaphobes,
racists, sexists, misogynists or any other "ists." I would caution
Trump deniers that all of the crying and whining is not good preparation
for the coming storm. The liberal media, both print and electronic, has
lost all credibility. I am reasonably sure that
none of the mainstream print media had stories prepared for a Trump
victory. I watched the networks and cable stations in their midnight
meltdown — embodied by Rachel Maddow explaining to viewers that they
were not having a "terrible, terrible dream" and that
they had not died and "gone to hell."
The media's criticism of Trump's high-level picks as "not diverse enough" or "too white and
male" — a day before he named two women and offered a cabinet position to an African-American — magnified this fact.
Here is a final word to my Democratic friends. The election is
over. There will not be a do-over. So
let me bid farewell to Al Sharpton, Ben Rhodes and the Clintons. Note
to Cher, Barbra, Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham: Your plane is waiting. And
to Jon Stewart, who talked about moving to another planet: Your
spaceship is waiting. To Bruce Springsteen, Jay Z,
Beyoncé and Katy Perry, thanks for the free concerts. And finally, to
all the foreign countries that contributed to the Clinton
Foundation, there will not be a payoff or a rebate.
As Eddie Murphy so eloquently stated in the movie "48 Hrs.": "There's
a new sheriff in town." And he is going to be here for 1,461 days.
Merry Christmas.
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