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Gracious Trump supporters? Not that I have seen
Biden should listen to the victims of Trumpism, not its perpetrators.
When Trump won in 2016, Democrats were expected to enter a four year mea culpa with his supporters. Everytime we turned on the news there appeared some disgruntled Trump voter and his buddies in a rural diner talking about the latest disguised synonym as to why they didn’t like their African American President or that, maybe they could vote for a woman, but not for Hillary, there’s just something about her. This was nothing more than economic anxiety, though. We were told it could only be calmed with a deeper, more empathetic understanding. The party of individual responsibility thought the system was against them.
The political justification for introspection was 306 electoral college votes, 62 million votes, and the dismantling of the so-called ‘Blue Wall’. If that was a repudiation of the liberal agenda, then what is Joe Biden’s win? It is looking likely he will also get 306 electoral college votes, while re-building the Blue Wall, flipping Arizona and Georgia, and getting more than 75 million votes. Even with a Biden win, however, these snowflakes still need coddling.
Conservative media has been praising Trump’s supporters for handling the defeat well. Have they been reaching out across the…