2024 Wednesday — Thank You

Scott Jennings of CNN says what many have been thinking:

“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.

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.

We were told Puerto Rico was going to change the election, Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley voters, women lying to their husbands. Before that, it was Tim Walz and the camo hats. Night after night after night, we were told all these things and gimmicks were going to somehow push Harris over the line, and we were just ignoring the fundamentals.

Inflation, people feeling like that they were barely able to tread water at best, that was the fundamentals of the election. But I think for all of us who cover elections and talk about elections and do this on a day-to-day basis, we have to figure out how to understand, talk to, and listen to the half of the country that rose up tonight and said, we've had enough. I do think the way this campaign was run was basically on, the Democrats thought there were enough people who hated Trump or were willing to fear him to win the race.

It turns out there's more to being president than simply not being Donald Trump in the eyes of the American people. I'm a little worried about how Democrats are going to react. They've been told Trump is a modern-day Hitler, or at least he's a fascist, and now Kamala Harris, I suspect, is going to have to wake up in the morning and concede to that person.

I'm a little concerned about an election in which half the country was conditioned to believe that the person who just won the national popular vote is going to be a dictator, eliminate the Constitution, and create a bloodbath, and so on and so forth. We have to reckon with that in the aftermath of that argument.”

Thank you Scott Jennings for speaking clearly.

Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka Carol
and Chloe & Mitzi too!