I know I posted this in another thread, but I think it really deserves its own place as a thread starter, lol.
None of the liberal media gets it. They still think it was a messaging problem. If only the knuckleheads in the electorate understood how good things really are, they all tell themselves, then they would have never have put the Bad Orange Man back in office.
They don't get that almost half the country has lost real purchasing power since Biden has been in office, with inflation on their core household expenses (rent, food, electricity, insurance premiums) outpacing wage growth
They don't get that people really care about border security.
They don't get that a solid majority of Americans oppose the woke policies that were being quietly pushed on them by an alphabet soup of regulatory agencies, including attempts to strong arm schools into allowing boys on girls playing fields and in their locker rooms and ESG mandates driving up auto and other prices.
They don't get that a majority of Americans saw the lawfare waged against Trump for what it was. Now maybe if it had been limited to the Georgia and federal cases it might have been viewed more seriously. But those cases in NY were a joke, both basically speeding ticket violations that were contorted, by both the prosecutors and all too complicit judges, in unprecedented ways to be treated as major crimes worthy of extraordinary punishment.
They don't get that folks can see that the world has become a much more dangerous place since Biden took office. After our hasty and disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and our eagerness to hand back to Iran the very money it has used to attack Israel, other bad actors obviously became emboldened.
But don't believe your lying eyes, they keep saying. All that matters is the Bad Orange Man is a felon and is...well...bad. Don't worry about all that other stuff - listen to our messaging instead, they say. It's about joy. Don't worry that Kamala has dodged every policy question posed to her, except to say that she wouldn't have done anything different than Biden. Just don't vote for the Bad Orange Man and all will be good, trust us, they say. 😉
Well, obviously the voting public believed their own eyes over the Dem messaging. Harris lost because people witnessed the disaster of the Biden Administration and Kamala did nothing to communicate how she would be different. Probably because she had no intention of being different, so at least I'll give her credit for not lying about it.
But too many in the media have spent the last 4 years excusing and whitewashing Biden's many mistakes. So now that they are on record for doing so, they can't backtrack now. So messaging it is, lol.
Btw it’s amazing a Hollywood actor (Clooney)basically removed a sitting president.