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November 8, 2020
REASON: The 2020 Election Results Look Like a Massive Rebuke of Socialism. “Summarizing the key lessons that Democrats should take away from election results that were much less favorable than expected, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D–Va.) reportedly told fellow members of her caucus during a conference call on Thursday that they shouldn’t say the word socialism ‘ever again.’ This would be good policy advice, whether or not it’s good political advice. But as it turns out, socialism is looking like a major political loser this election cycle.”
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NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comments.
#FOXEXIT MOVEMENT BUILDS AS NETWORK HAS BECOME ANTI-TRUMP.
Related: Backlash Against Fox News Explodes.
More: The FOX News factor. “Some explanation [for Fox calling Arizona so quickly for Biden] is called for. So far as I can tell, however, FOX News is resting on its right to remain silent and moving on to celebrate the coming regency period.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Yes.
Got home the other night and Helen was watching Newsmax. We never watched Newsmax before the election. We haven’t watched Fox since.
WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO CAN WORK WITH MEXICO: World leaders congratulate Biden except… Mexico’s Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
QUESTION ASKED: Is the Pandemic Over? Liberals Rally to Celebrate Media Projecting Biden’s Victory.
And a similar response from Vox’s Aaron Rupar: Journalist caught in act of rank hypocrisy doesn’t care because he doesn’t have to.
Or as Glenn Greenwald tweets, “How the media shifted so abruptly from ‘anyone going to a spacious beach is a super-spreading monster killing Grandma’ to ‘these mass, densely populated protests with people screaming on top of each other are so inspiring’ was one of 2020’s most credibility-destroying media acts.”
Well, one of.
WALL STREET JOURNAL: Joe Biden’s Non-Mandate: He may win the White House, but his party and progressive ideas lost.
Mr. Biden will win the popular vote, and he may eke out a narrow win in the Electoral College. In essence he’ll have reversed Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 with hair’s-breadth advantages in Wisconsin and Michigan, and perhaps Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona. None of them will be by large margins. He will have vanquished an incumbent President, which is no easy task.
But look down the ballot, or across the country, and Mr. Biden’s potential victory looks remarkably limited and personal. Most new Presidents enter office having swept allies into Congress and statehouses as the public embraces his agenda and vision for America. Certainly this was true of Barack Obama in 2008 and to a lesser extent Mr. Trump in 2016. Mr. Biden had no such coattails.
Democrats lost seats in the House, giving up some of the suburban gains they made in 2018 while continuing to struggle in rural areas. The full results won’t be in for weeks, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi may find her majority cut in half or more to the smallest in 20 years.
Senate control may be determined by a Jan. 5 runoff for two seats in Georgia. But the GOP already looks to have won 50 seats to 48 for Democrats, who had expected to ride public dislike for Mr. Trump into the majority. A GOP Senate may compromise with Mr. Biden around centrist ideas, but the aggressive House agenda of the last two years would die again.
This result is all the more remarkable given that Democrats had nearly all of the media, Silicon Valley billionaires, and all of the leading cultural figures and institutions helping them. Even the Chamber of Commerce paid protection money. Democrats raised unheard of sums close to $100 million for some Senate races, outspending Republicans by two or three to one. They still could oust only two incumbents and lost one of their own.
The lack of coattails was also evident in the states, where Democrats spent heavily to flip legislatures.
The outfit that called itself the “Resistance” was composed of “nearly all of the media, Silicon Valley billionaires, and all of the leading cultural figures and institutions.”
JOURNALISM AS PERFORMANCE ART: CNN’s Don Lemon Weeps at Being ‘Overwhelmed’ by Biden Victory.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE EXPECTED — AND EVEN ENCOURAGED — RIOTS IF BIDEN LOST. NOBODY FEARS THAT FROM TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
Related (From Ed): ThinkProgress founder Judd Legum is thisclose to getting it:
As Republican pollster Logan Dobson tweets in response, “Instead ask yourself: why was it boarded up in the first place?”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): From the comments:
AS ALWAYS, LIFE IMITATES AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
● Shot: Rioters Demand A Recount.
“We were all ready to loot and burn everything down — we must count again!” they said, joining with President Trump in his calls for legal challenges and recounts to dispute the apparent Biden victory. “There was obvious voter fraud in this election. We must get a Biden loss, no matter what!”
“I was all ready to do my Christmas shopping, and then Biden won,” said a dejected rioter as he stood there with an unlit Molotov cocktail. “How am I supposed to pick up a new Xbox now that Trump lost? Ugh. And I might not have another opportunity for these kinds of deals until 2024!”
Rioters are saying that if they do not get the results they desire, they may just riot and burn the country down anyway in protest.
—The Babylon Bee, Friday.
● Chaser: Even With a Biden Win, Portland’s Protesters Vow to Keep Smashing Stuff.
—Nancy Rommelmann, Reason, Friday.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “The 2000 recount was awful, but was still far more pleasant than what comes next by virtue of social media not existing.”
IN ITS RECREATIONAL-DRUG FORM, DMT IS VERY BAD FOR THE BRAIN. BUT THIS ISN’T QUITE THE SAME: An Amazonian tea stimulates the formation of new neurons.