Elites attack American voters for electoral choice
Media operatives and celebrities began attacking American voters Wednesday after they elected Donald Trump the 47th president of the United States in a landslide victory.
Trump handily won both the electoral and popular votes while making historical gains among minorities. Republicans seized control of the Senate and are poised to gain control of the House of Representatives, while also winning 27 governorships to the Democrats’ 23.
This decisive choice by voters triggered fury among the elite, who immediately began trashing them.
‘I hate y’all’
“I hate y’all bad,” said rapper Cardi B, who recently campaigned for Kamala Harris. She told one Trump-supporting Instagram user: “I’m sick of you! Burn your f***ing hats, motherf***er. I’m really sad. I swear to God I’m really sad.”
Nihilistic
Actor John Cusak wrote: “The fact that the country would choose to destroy itself by voting in a convicted felon rapist and Nazi is a sign of deep nihilism. To put it mildly.”
Racist and sexist
The West Wing star Bradley Whitford said “you can never underestimate” just how “racist and sexist this country is.” He also referred to the majority of the country as a “cult.”
“It is completely bewildering to me the cult that has formed around a narcissist like this, the worst person in show business. And that’s a tough category,” said Whitford, adding that he “absolutely thought we were going to win.”
Misogynists and fascists
Singer Ricky Davila also accused voters of racism and sexism but added misogyny and fascism.
“It was never about them or their supreme qualifications, it was about misogyny, racism, hate and fascism,” he said.
Against female rights
Actress Christina Applegate attacked her fans for voting “against female rights” and “disability rights,” though she did not explain which rights are in jeopardy.
“My child is sobbing because her rights as a woman may be taken away,” she wrote. “Why? And if you disagree, please unfollow me.”
“Please unfollow me if you voted against female rights,” she said in another post. “Against disability rights. Yeah that. Unfollow me because what you did is unreal. Don’t want followers like this. So yeah. Done. Also after today I will be shutting down this fan account that I have had for so many years because this is sick.”
Sexists and racists
Media operatives and political elites also dismissed voters as racist and sexist. “I think there are plenty of ways to critique her as a candidate; I think they’ll [sic] be time to do that,” Former Barack Obama advisor David Axelrod told ABC’s Lindsey Davis. “But that doesn’t obviate the fact that there were some people who probably voted against her, we’ve never had a woman president, that there’s sexism in this country.”
“I do have to wonder what role race and gender played,” Davis responded, adding: “And so I don’t know that we have the answers tonight, but I think that is kind of the elephant in the room that we’re not talking about because we’re not just talking about having a woman, we’re talking about having a woman of color, and I think that that’s something that we cannot underestimate.”
When asked why Trump won, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) declared, “Racism is the basic part.”
Scott Jennings responds: ‘They’re not Nazis’
Scott Jennings, CNN’s token Republican commentator, tried explaining to his colleagues on Tuesday night why Trump won.
“I'm interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of just the regular old working class American, the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to. They're not garbage. They're not Nazis,” he said on CNN.
“They're just regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for their kids, and they feel like they have been told to just shut up when they have complained about the things that are hurting them in their own lives. I also feel like this election, as we sit here and pour over this tonight, is something of an indictment of the political information complex. We've been sitting around here for the last couple of weeks, and the story that was portrayed was not true.”
