Democrats looking to point fingers after 'embarrassing' election loss should start with media: WSJ columnist

Democrats looking to point fingers at President-elect Trump's Election Day beating of Vice President Kamala Harris should look directly to the mainstream media, according to a fiery Wall Street Journal column.

Opinion columnist Kimberley Strassel wrote a piece titled, “A Landslide Against the Media: News organizations tried to help Biden and Harris. How did that work?” He noted the tension among Democrats who want to blame someone for the party's “shameful” election night defeat.

“As long as the left is still pointing fingers, let's target the big, fat digit in the outfit that played a major role in losing this election: the US media,” Strassel wrote.

“That's not conventional wisdom, which says that bare-bones media shilling for Democratic candidates equates to negative campaign contributions. And there's no doubt that the media's relentless attacks on Donald Trump and the Republicans helped rally undecided voters,” he continued. “Yet the boosterism of Kamala Harris & Co. came at a very high cost: A story full of dreams made Democrats live in a world out of touch with the country's emotions and concerns.”

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Strassel feels that “most damaging to these dreams was the media's four-year assurance that Joe Biden was as sharp as a tactician,” and noted that reporters who insisted on “video evidence in June of a confused president wandering around aimlessly” were edited, misleading or lack of context was part of the problem.

“It wasn't until the Trump-Biden debate made Mr. Biden's decline unchallengeable that the media let it go,” Strassel wrote.

With Biden sidelined, the media worked to recast Harris as “a political genius and the apparent savior of the Democratic Party” despite his record as “a loser turned unpopular vice president.”

“How did that go?” Strassel asked.

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Democrats who want to point fingers at Vice President Kamala Harris' election Day pick should look directly to the mainstream media, according to a fiery Wall Street Journal column. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

He wrote that “Biden's failed constitution would have been front-page news at a time when Democrats had to face the unpleasant (yet manageable) reality of needed change” if the media had been competent.

“The primary would have produced a vetted nominee, who would have come in under Biden's record. As Harris adviser (and Obama veteran) David Plouffe complained that Team Biden had created a 'hole' too 'deep' for his sidekick to climb out of, don't forget the industry whose job it is to publish political fiction, but instead wrote the novel 'Joe Is Fine,'” Strassel wrote.

“Of course the Democrats are shocked that they lost,” he added. “In a country with a working press, a politician who tries to make excuses for inflation, crime or border unrest, is slapped out of business. In the Biden-Harris world, the press has printed their spin as gospel.”

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Kimberley Strassel wrote a piece titled, “A Landslide Against the Media: News organizations tried to help Biden and Harris. How did that work?” (FOX News)

Strassel said that four years of consolidation that emphasized that the economy is strong under the Biden-Harris administration, and that the crime rate is falling and the immigration problem is being raised by Republican governors has led liberals to believe that “the climate, systemic racism, abortion and transgender rights. ” were the biggest issues for people. Americans faced them.

“Dreams were kept until the election. Even as Republicans pointed to increased voter registration, unprecedented early voting and significant demographic change, headlines emphasized that Kamala would seek to defeat the abortion wave and Liz Cheney – urban women who love abortion. , Puerto Ricans comedian haters, and White boys were impressed by Tim Walz's camo hat No wonder Tuesday was It's amazing. America voted for Mr. Trump never showed up in these stores,” Strassel wrote.

A columnist for the Wall Street Journal said that the Democrats are now faced with a choice, as “on one side are party elders who publicly acknowledge this defeat as a sharp rebuke of voters for progressive policies,” while the other side focuses on “racism, sexism and bigotry. America is supposedly in love with 'fascism' '” marks a victory for President-elect Trump.

“Not surprisingly, the media is already running with this latest narrative, and giving the party a cool alternative to the bleak reality of its ideological failure. Will the Democrats be put to sleep again? If they really want to connect with voters, at some point they must break away from what appears to be debilitation,” he wrote.

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Strassel feels that podcasters like Joe Rogan are now trusted to bring real information and analysis that used to come from legacy media.

“The Founders gave the press the honor of being included in the First Amendment out of respect for the important role it plays in keeping the vote honest. This industry is meant to shepherd the government—on both sides—in the interest of the people. That job is important—not just to transparency, but to provide self-deceiving politicians with a constant check that their policies last. like a nation suffers, but so does a group that begins to live in hypocrisy,” wrote Strassel.