It's racist that Biden isn't winning in a landslide
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Some people are just determined to be miserable.
Left-wing commentators, journalists, and academics are on track to share in a major political victory. Odds favor Joe Biden in his attempt to beat an incumbent president. But many left-wingers are despondent this week over the fact that only a handful of electoral votes separate Biden from President Trump. It is not good enough, these people say, that their team will likely win the White House. It is not good enough, they add, that Trump may lose the popular vote by as many as seven million votes. The fact that the president is giving Biden a run for his money is proof that the United States is a deeply broken, racist hellhole.
“Turns out, this really is the country we thought it was,” New York Times magazine’s historical fiction enthusiast Nikole Hannah-Jones griped the day after the election.
Over at the New Yorker, staff writer John Cassidy complained, “If there was any remaining doubt about the potency of Trump’s particular brand of this noxious brew, particularly to men, this election has dispelled it. Blatant incompetence, corruption, racism, and cruelty are no barrier to popularity.”
Trump was announced the projected winner in both Texas and Florida early Tuesday evening, carried by strong support from Hispanic and Latino voters. This was not the president’s only success with a nonwhite voting bloc. Trump made gains with nearly every demographic except for white men, according to exit polling data. In fact, the president is set to win the highest share of the nonwhite vote for a Republican presidential candidate since 1960.
But for certain members of the elite commentariat, Trump’s success with nonwhite voters is actually proof that white supremacy is alive and well in the U.S.
“These days, I am reminded quite often that you do not have to be white to support white supremacy,” said the Washington Post’s Eugene Scott.
In defense of his absurd and offensive assertion, Scott, who is black, said elsewhere, “It is not racist to say that some black & Latino men back Trump because of his version of masculinity when they themselves have said that that is part of why they back him.”
He added, “What’s potentially racist is white people (once again) thinking they understand black America better than black Americans.”
But does that not also apply to black people thinking they understand Hispanic and Latino America better than Hispanic and Latinos? Who knows!
Hannah-Jones similarly attacked Latino voters who voted for Trump, vowing to one day write the essay that argues "Latino" is a “contrived ethnic category” created by white people.
Elsewhere, others complained simply that the competitiveness of the 2020 election is proof of America’s ongoing struggle with racism.
“We need to talk a lot less about red and blue,” said Arne Duncan, who served under former President Barack Obama as the U.S. Secretary of Education. “We need to talk a lot more about whiteness.”
CNN, meanwhile, published a news analysis (not an opinion article) with the headline: “Millions of White voters are once again showing who they are.”
This is good and healthy stuff, folks.
Author and HuffPost contributor John Pavlovitz added in a comment of his own, “The election results will have revealed that we have more Americans committed to racism than we thought we might. That sucks.”
MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who slurred Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas this week when she called him “Uncle Clarence,” opined that there was not a “repudiation” of racism on Election Day.
“As the night wore on,” the host bemoaned, “I realized, and it sunk in, OK, that [repudiation is] not happening. We are still who we thought.”
The Washington Post’s Max Boot chimed in as well, claiming it is “disturbing” that the “GOP paid little price” for allowing Trump to spread “racism.”
“Exit Polls Point to the Power of White Patriarchy,” reads the headline to the New York Times’s Charles Blow’s post-election column.
Said USA Today’s Mike Freeman of how poorly the pollsters predicted the election, “Polls don’t have an algorithm for racism.”
It goes on like that for quite a bit.
Watching these people weep even as their team stands poised to reclaim the executive branch is a lot like watching someone eat a birthday cake angrily. It is both pitiful and humorous at the same time.
No one likes a sore winner.