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More amazing examples of denial in the media:
Notable & Quotable: Fingers on the Pulse of America
‘This election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America.’
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A selection of reactions from journalists and pundits to Donald Trump’s victory:
From Washington Post Opinion’s Prompt newsletter:
Ruth Marcus: I am reeling, to be honest, from the initial results and the trend line. . . .
David Ignatius: The presidential election is a character test for the candidates, but also for the country, and this election makes me realize how little I understand the American character in 2024. . . . Like Ruth, I am mystified by this outcome.
Matt Bai: I’ll admit to being somewhat mystified, too.
Columnist Charles M. Blow in the New York Times’s “Why Trump Won” video:
This is what Americans want. . . . They are becoming more insular. They are becoming more hostile to foreigners, immigrants. They are becoming more protective of a legacy, and they believe that that story belongs to them and may be destroyed by the idea of progress.
Journalist Jonathan Capehart on “PBS NewsHour”:
I am mystified in some ways simply because we’re talking about a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, convicted-on-34-felony-counts former president. . . . Who are we as a country? And from what I’m seeing right now, I’m not sure I like it.
Writer Jill Filipovic on X:
In the coming days there’s gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America.
The New York Times’s Nikole-Hannah Jones on X:
Since this nation’s inception large swaths of white Americans—including white women—have claimed a belief in democracy while actually enforcing a white ethnocracy. In the face of shifting demographics where white Americans will lose their numeric majority, we see a growing embrace of autocracy to keep the “legitimate” rulers of this country in power. History teaches us that we are in a perilous moment.
The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin:
The media, it must be said, did not fulfill its role in educating the public and advancing truth as their primary objective. Refusal to explore Trump’s manifest defects and place him and his movement in the context of fascist strongmen and their cults had the effect of normalizing and legitimizing a candidate utterly unfit for office. But the facts nevertheless were there for anyone who cared to look. At some point, voters are responsible for their own decisions.
From MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”:
Joe Scarborough: Democrats need to be mature and they need to be honest. And they need to say, yes there’s misogyny, but it’s not just misogyny from white men. It’s misogyny from Hispanic men. It’s misogyny from black men. Things we’ve all been talking about, who do not want a woman leading them. . . . A lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates.
Al Sharpton: And with other Hispanics.
Scarborough: Exactly.
Sharpton: You’ve got some that don’t like each other. And some of the most misogynistic things I’ve heard going on this get-out-the-vote tour came from black men. I mean misogynist things. So you’re absolutely right, it’s not simplistic. And we’ve got to have real honest conversations about it.
The Bulwark’s Jonathan V. Last:
I think the lesson Democrats will have to take from this is not gonna be like, “Oh, well can’t be PC or whatever.” They’re gonna take from this that what they need is their own strongman. And I don’t know that I can sit here and tell them that they’re wrong.
Columnist Lydia Polgreen in the New York Times’s “Why Trump Won” video:
There was just thing after thing that seemed to break in his favor. And so while it’s tempting to assign some grand historical meaning to his victory, I think that one of the biggest and most underappreciated aspects of it is Trump is just an incredibly lucky bastard.
Jen Psaki, host of MSNBC’s “Inside With Jen Psaki”:
I wish I had better news for my daughter later this morning. . . . I wish I could have called her and told her that the first woman president had just been elected. I wish that. I won’t be able to do that.
What I can do—what I can tell my daughter and what I will tell my daughter is that our roles as American citizens have never been more important than they are right now. I can tell her that there are still lots of good forces out there, forces for good in this country, and that they are going to be getting to work.
From Politico’s “Why Kamala Harris lost the election,” by Christopher Cadelago and Holly Otterbeinm:
Some close allies and even a few aides privately questioned why [Harris] continued to hold [Biden] so closely, particularly because her campaign didn’t try to make extensive use of their record. Yet inside her campaign, there was little sense Harris should bear the brunt of the blame, with aides pointing to how she moved battleground numbers in her favor and held down Trump’s margins, and a pervasive feeling that Biden and broader anti-incumbent fervor put her in a difficult, even impossible position.
“We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president,” grumbled one Harris aide granted anonymity to speak freely. “Joe Biden is the singular reason Kamala Harris and Democrats lost tonight.”
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Appeared in the November 7, 2024, print edition as 'Notable & Quotable: Fingers on the Pulse'.
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