Since the November 5th election, the liberal media has melted down faster than Chernobyl’s No. 4 reactor regarding Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Kamala Harris, while doubling down on its antagonistic coverage of the president-elect. Not content with that, the regime media has also begun attacking Trump supporters in the most derogatory and patronizing manner, despite the fact it’s exactly such coverage that helped propel Trump back to the White House in such a commanding fashion.  

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s November 6 editorial, for example, berates Trump supporters (and their own readers, apparently) for having the audacity to prioritize their financial well-being – including the ability to pay their bills and put food on the table – over the editorial board’s notion of “equity” and “social justice”: 

For many Trump supporters, the high price of eggs and gasoline mattered more than equal rights, the rule of law, or climate change, let alone four more years of chaos and corruption.

Similar criticism was also echoed on local college campuses by students like Ray Epstein, Temple University’s student government president, who was quoted as saying how angry she was that “privileged” people “lack so much empathy that they are willing to prioritize things like the economy” over those “not like them,” as if voters must choose between themselves and their families’ happiness and well-being or the ‘collective good.’  

Such banal platitudes are especially egregious as Americans continue to deal with the economic impact of inflation on the cost of living. And while inflation has declined from its near-record levels in 2022, prices have not decreased to levels prior to the pandemic. According to a FOX Business analysis in September, for example, food prices rose by about 22.8 percent, energy prices rose by about 42.4 percent, and new vehicle prices rose by 19.5 percent in the Biden administration compared to Trump’s first term.

Is it any wonder then that the economy was the number one reason a majority of Trump voters backed his candidacy? The Democrats and liberal media tried to downplay the harshness of the economic realities faced by most Americans by pointing to low unemployment rates, increasing wages and interest rates dropping, but such messaging only came across as condescending and patronizing, making people feel unheard and unvalued. That’s especially true here in Pennsylvania, where post-pandemic economic recovery has lagged behind other parts of the country.

Given this tone-deafness, it’s unsurprising the ‘journalists’ at the Inquirer editorial board are genuinely perplexed that voters “looked in the mirror and decided they wanted a wannabe dictator” over Vice President Kamala Harris’ positive proposal to “turn the page” and create an “opportunity economy for all.” Yet Kamala Harris and Joe Biden had four years to create just such an economy, but failed spectacularly.   

So perhaps these same journalists are the ones who should “look in the mirror” and display some contrition by acknowledging the fact that Donald Trump convincingly won the election not just because of the economy, but that he and JD Vance also portrayed an image of strength, unity and unbridled patriotism that hasn’t been seen in this county since the days of Ronald Reagan. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz lost largely because they were the embodiment of weakness, division and an America-last mentality which the vast majority of Americans rightly rejected. 

Instead of showing some humility, however, the editorial board doubled-down on the type of myopic thinking and woke pablum that cost the Harris/Walz ticket the election this year by playing both the race and gender card:

For others, the thought of a Black and South Asian woman as commander in chief was a bridge too far — proving once again that systemic racism and sexism are hardwired into the American Experiment that began with the still unfulfilled promise that all are created equal.

The Left has demonstrated a clear pattern of describing everyone in this country who disagrees with them as racist, so it’s no surprise they’d resort to such tactics now.  As Real Time host Bill Maher recently said in his closing monologue last Friday night:

What a shocker that the people who see everything through the lens of race and sex see their election loss as a result of racism and sexism.

The reality is, of course, that her loss had nothing to do with ‘systemic racism’ and ‘sexism’, although that’s a convenient (but intellectually lazy) excuse for the Left to propagate. The fact is, many Republican men would have voted for a Margaret Thatcher-type Republican woman of color over Kamala Harris if she’d been on the ballot this year, thus rendering the editorial board’s hollow claim of sexism and racism suspect. 

What they also fail to comprehend is that Americans want two things above all in our candidates for higher office: to be transparent and to project strong dedication to their core values. Despite his character flaws — and Lord knows there are many — Trump fulfills both requirements, literally taking a bullet for us. And as Trump makes good on both counts, American voters knew exactly who and what they were voting for — a man of grit and steely determination committed to delivering on the promises he made on the campaign trail.  

Kamala Harris, in stark contrast, tried disingenuously to run to the center, but simply couldn’t escape her well-documented record of ‘progressive’ policy positions on important socioeconomic issues, such as decriminalizing illegal immigration, eliminating private health insurance, confiscating guns, and banning fracking, to name a few. She tried doing an about face on these issues in a futile attempt at remaking her image from 2019, claiming her “values haven’t changed” while trying to convince voters she now supported fracking, a border wall, private health insurance and gasoline-powered cars. But her futile attempt at pandering to moderate voters apparently only served to give them pause. They weren’t swayed by this patronizing rubbish, hence her loss in the electoral college and the national popular vote. 

The regime media and Democrats did comprehend correctly that a potential Trump presidency posed a threat to their liberal agenda — not to “democracy” itself — hence their attempt to tar and feather him as a “fascist.”  But it’s exactly that liberal agenda — although universally lauded and pervasive in the media, on college campuses, and the entertainment industry today — which is the fundamental reason Harris lost — i.e., left-wing policies are unpopular and they don’t work.  

And it turns out the fear of fascism may be a luxury for people who are financially solvent.  Working-class voters were at the core of Trump’s victory, and the failed fascism argument was a Democratic dodge to obfuscate their inability to answer for people’s economic woes.  Categorizing Trump as a “fascist” therefore can be seen as a desperate attempt to frighten the public into voting for an inept, vapid, and utterly unconvincing DEI candidate, since “democracy” itself was at stake. 

Yet that same “democracy” resulted in Trump not only winning Pennsylvania by the widest margin since Ronald Reagan, but also gaining all over the state, including in working-class communities from Allentown to Johnstown. Over 76 million voters of all colors and creeds enthusiastically supported Trump because they saw him as better representing their desire for prosperity and a return to socially conservative values.   

People did not choose grocery prices over the Inquirer’s human rights virtue signaling and progressive policy agenda. People pragmatically chose grocery prices over their delusions that their rights were being taken away in the first place. One can only hope that they — and the Democratic Party — will take this opportunity for self-reflection and realize that they clearly do not represent the needs and sensibilities of the vast majority of American voters at this point in time, despite the Left’s relentless fearmongering about Trump. Until liberals make a bona fide attempt to recalibrate their agenda to legitimately represent the needs of the average American – regardless of economic or social class — they will only end up empowering Republicans to steer more of the electorate into their camp.  

Richard F. Kosich is a Grassroots Manager at AFP Action PA, writer and community activist.  He’s also a Republican Committeeman for Conshohocken Ward 2, Chair of the Conshohocken Borough Republican Committee (CBRC) and Vice-Chair of Montgomery County Republican Committee (MCRC) Area 6.