Mainstream media dug its own grave with absurd Trump election coverage

This isn’t a column.It’s an obituary.Donald Trump’s improbable, historic, decisive victory on Tuesday showed us that the so-called free press is dead and buried. Outlets from CBS to NBC to ABC to CNN to MSNBC to The Washington Post and The New York Times and countless others like Politico and The Atlantic went all-in on defeating Trump with overwhelmingly negative and oftentimes patently dishonest coverage — and they failed miserably.Weeks of their electioneering couldn’t bring the voters to their side.Headlines alone reveal how they served as de facto surrogates for the Kamala Harris campaign. The Washington Post: “Another night at the Garden: How Trump’s rally echoed [a Nazi rally] in 1939” The New York Times: “Harris and Democrats Lose Their Reluctance to Call Trump a Fascist”Politico: “Meet the sleeper conservatives who could help fulfill Trump’s promise to be a dictator on Day 1”The Atlantic: “Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini” And when the election results actually arrived, the mainstream media reaction was unhinged, insane and unintentionally hilarious. Trump and J.D.

Vance won going away — not only by sweeping every swing state, but by winning the popular vote, the first GOP ticket to do so since 2004.They thereby stripped the Democrats and the media of any chance to cry foul about the will of the people being superseded by the Electoral College. So without any controversy over the tally — and after propping up the worst presidential candidate in history in a fruitless effort to get her over the finish line — these activists posing as journalists had nothing left but unfiltered and unhinged emotion.And it was delicious to watch as the returns came in. Take David Axelrod on CNN, for example.The former Obama strategist is usually rational, but with his candidate losing so badly, he could only play the hatred card. “Let’s be honest about this.

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