Democrats looking to point fingers after ‘humiliating’ election defeat should start with media: WSJ columnist

Democrats who privation to constituent fingers astatine President-elect Trump’s Election Day thumping of Vice President Kamala Harris should look straight astatine the mainstream media, according to a scathing Wall Street Journal column. 

Opinion columnist Kimberley Strassel penned a portion headlined, "A Landslide Against the Media: News organizations tried to prop Biden and Harris up. How did that enactment out?" She noted infighting among Democrats who privation to blasted idiosyncratic for the party’s "humiliating" predetermination nighttime defeat. 

"So agelong arsenic the near is pointing fingers, fto it nonstop a big, abdominous digit astatine the outfit that played the biggest relation successful losing it this election: the U.S. media," Strassel wrote. 

"That isn’t the accepted wisdom, which holds that the press’s bare shilling for Democratic candidates amounts to an in-kind run contribution. And nary uncertainty the media’s ceaseless attacks on Donald Trump and Republicans did assistance circular up immoderate undecided voters," she continued. "Yet the boosterism for Kamala Harris & Co. came astatine a acold bigger cost: A communicative afloat of phantasy enabled Democrats to unrecorded successful a satellite disconnected from the temper and worries of the country."

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The U.S. media played a cardinal relation successful Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat, Kimberley Strassel wrote.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Strassel feels "the astir damaging of these fantasies was the four-year property assurance that Joe Biden was crisp arsenic a tack," and noted that the journalists who insisted "video grounds successful June of a confused president wandering aimlessly" was edited, misleading oregon lacking discourse were portion of the problem. 

"Only erstwhile the Trump-Biden statement made Mr. Biden’s diminution undeniable did the media driblet the charade," Strassel wrote. 

Once Biden was pushed aside, the property worked to recast Harris "as a governmental genius and the evident savior of the Democratic Party" contempt her grounds arsenic a "primary loser turned unpopular vice president."

"How’d that enactment out?" Strassel asked. 

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Democrats who privation to constituent fingers for President-elect Trump’s Election Day thumping of Vice President Kamala Harris should look straight astatine the mainstream media, according to a scathing Wall Street Journal column.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

She wrote that "Biden’s failing constitution would person been front-page quality successful clip for Democrats to face the unpleasant (yet manageable) world of needed change" if the property were really competent. 

"A superior would person produced a tested nominee, apt 1 little encumbered by the Biden record. As Harris advisor (and Obama veteran) David Plouffe complains that Team Biden created a ‘hole’ excessively ‘deep’ for his sidekick to excavation retired of, don’t hide the manufacture whose occupation it is to telephone retired governmental fiction, but alternatively wrote the ‘Joe Is Fine’ novel," Strassel wrote.

"Of people Democrats are shocked that they lost," she added. "In a satellite with a functioning press, the person who tries to marque lemonade retired of inflation, transgression oregon borderline chaos, is slapped arsenic retired of touch. In Biden-Harris world, the property printed their rotation arsenic gospel."

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Kimberley Strassel penned a portion headlined, "A Landslide Against the Media: News organizations tried to prop Biden and Harris up. How did that enactment out?" (FOX News)

Strassel said 4 years of sum that insisted the system was beardown nether the Biden-Harris administration, on with claims transgression rates were falling and the migrant occupation was being magnified by Republican governors resulted successful liberals believing "climate, systemic racism, termination and transgender rights" were the biggest issues Americans face. 

"The fantasies were maintained close up to the election. Even arsenic Republicans pointed to surging elector registration, unprecedented aboriginal votes and notable demographic shifts, the headlines insisted that Kamala would assertion triumph connected a question of abortion-and-Liz Cheney-loving suburban women, comedian-condemning Puerto Ricans, and White dudes impressed by Tim Walz’s camo hat. No wonderment Tuesday was a surprise. The America that voted for Mr. Trump has ne'er adjacent made an quality successful these outlets," Strassel wrote. 

The Wall Street Journal columnist said that Democrats present look a choice, arsenic "one broadside are enactment grown-ups who are publically acknowledging this decision arsenic a crisp elector rebuke of progressive policies," portion the different broadside are fixated connected "racism, sexism and America’s expected emotion matter with ‘fascism’" securing President-elect Trump’s victory. 

"No surprise, the media is already moving with this second narrative, again providing the enactment a soothing alternate to the blunt world of its ideological fail. Will Democrats beryllium lulled again? If they truly privation to reconnect with voters, they volition astatine immoderate constituent person to interruption with what is proving to beryllium a debilitating feedback loop," she wrote. 

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Strassel feels podcasters specified arsenic Joe Rogan are present trusted to present realistic information and analysis that utilized to travel from the bequest media. 

"The Founders accorded the property the grant of inclusion successful the First Amendment successful designation of the captious relation it plays successful keeping pols honest. The manufacture is meant to thrust herd connected government—on some sides—in the involvement of the people. That occupation is essential—not lone for transparency, but to supply self-deluding politicians changeless gut checks arsenic to however their policies beryllium with the nation. When that guardrail falls, the federation suffers, but truthful excessively does the enactment that gets to unrecorded the make-believe," Strassel wrote.