The 2016 election.

This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness. Had Hillary Clinton won, there’s be a winking “we did it” feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic."

"So much for that. The audience for our glib analysis and contempt for much of the electorate, it turned out, was rather limited. This was particularly true when it came to voters, the ones who turned out by the millions to deliver not only a rebuke to the political system but also the people who cover it. Trump knew what he was doingwhen he invited his crowds to jeer and hiss the reporters covering him. They hate us, and have for some time.

And can you blame them? Journalists love mocking Trump supporters. We insult their appearances. We dismiss them as racists and sexists. We emote on Twitter about how this or that comment or policy makes us feel one way or the other, and yet we reject their feelings as invalid.

It’s a profound failure of empathy in the service of endless posturing. There’s been some sympathy from the press, sure: the dispatches from “heroin country” that read like reports from colonial administrators checking in on the natives. But much of that starts from the assumption that Trump voters are backward, and that it’s our duty to catalogue and ultimately reverse that backwardness. What can we do to get these people to stop worshiping their false god and accept our gospel?

We diagnose them as racists in the way Dark Age clerics confused medical problems with demonic possession. Journalists, at our worst, see ourselves as a priestly caste. We believe we not only have access to the indisputable facts, but also a greater truth, a system of beliefs divined from an advanced understanding of justice.

You’d think that Trump’s victory – the one we all discounted too far in advance – would lead to a certain newfound humility in the political press. But of course that’s not how it works. To us, speaking broadly, our diagnosis was still basically correct. The demons were just stronger than we realized.

This is all a “whitelash,” you see. Trump voters are racist and sexist, so there must be more racists and sexists than we realized. Tuesday night’s outcome was not a logic-driven rejection of a deeply flawed candidate named Clinton; no, it was a primal scream against fairness, equality, and progress. Let the new tantrums commence!"

It's sad really, Obama was elected on the basis of "hope and change". I knew what that "change" actually meant, as he passed all he wanted to with the lay down republicans who told us "elections have consequences" and they couldn't go against him and make the media mock them... 

But, the people didn't expect that "hope and change" to hit them in the wallet so hard. They liked working, but today 94,000,000 are unemployed. And the jobs you can find are low paying jobs... And with healthcare, now many can't find a single full time job and have to work a bunch of part time jobs. I know too many families where the parents (who now have to both work) and each of them have TWO jobs minimum to make ends meet while living in a small cramped 2 bedroom apartment with 3 kids... 

Again, America voted for change. And I actually think this change will be much better than the last promise of "shovel ready" jobs and "hope". 

Perfect example of why I think this... Trump won spending $5 per vote. WAAAY less than has ever been spent in a Presidential race in the last 20 years. Because he ran it as a business... And I pray he turns our government into a business as well, because making it a money pit with no accountability and endless money spent has bankrupted our country to the tune of 20 Trillion in debt and a crumbling country...

Make America great again was a vote for change in Washington, and proof that the country doesn't care what the media says anymore, because they are bought and paid for by the liberals who just got shown the door by the people who have seen their kids lose their opportunity to advance through the liberal destruction of our economy. 

The media sucks, and the public doesn't believe them anymore. Good luck selling ads in your propaganda anymore! We all saw you didn't fire all the journalists busted by wikileaks for colluding with Hillary and the DNC.