Liberal media are big losers
Your editorial Nov. 10 was the best you have ever written. You apparently don’t understand what happened on Election Day 2016, so please permit me to explain it to you and your readers who are in the dark.
The big losers on Election Day were the liberal media, an adjunct of the national Democrat Party. The far left “progressives” who had backed Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and then rationalized voting for Hillary Clinton lost big. Many pseudo-conservatives in the media also look like fools, i.e. George Will, David Brooks, Bill Kristol, Kathleen Parker, as well as the #NeverTrump GOP establishment in D.C.
Donald Trump is not a typical politician who says what is necessary to get elected and then goes to the state capitol or D.C. and joins the establishment and forgets what he said until the next election. He told us 18 months ago what he was going to do, and today he is the PEOTUS (president-elect), meeting with Obama to set up the transition process. He did what he said he would do and more. He won all three must-have states – Florida, North Carolina nd Ohio – plus Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconson, all considered blue states belonging to Democrats.
Hillary Clinton, to quote Frank Bruni of The New York Times, “is a profoundly flawed candidate unable to make an easy connection with voters. And is a party being remotely realistic – or entirely reckless – to try to sell a candidate who personifies the status quo to an electorate that’s clearly hungry for some kind of shock to the system?”
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who resisted Trump, said this week that Trump heard the voices the establishment, including the media, ignored and talked directly to the forgotten working class in flyover country. They voted for him in droves not seen in most people’s lifetimes. Washington and Greene counties voted 2-1 for Tump over Clinton, although both have more Democrats than Republicans. The vote is against the establishment of both parties.
We have had Republican control of Congress for six years, but they have done nothing to stop the Obama agenda or force him to obey the Constitution. It is our job as citizens and voters to insist that Congress, with Trump’s leadership, get our country back on track to prosperity and start doing what they said they would do when elected. They work for us and must listen to the voices of we, the people. We can hire and fire them. We need term limits desperately.
John Loughman
West Finley