This Saturday’s Guest Video is presented on behalf of the Media Research Center. The video is a compilation of various journalists’ and other press personalities’ reactions to the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States. The almost completely homogenous reaction of the mainstream press illustrates not only the echo chamber of liberal opinion but why progressive talking-heads are simply incapable of understanding the election results. The outcome of the recent US presidential elections are so alien to the leftist mind, that they cannot accept what in their worldview was quite simply impossible. And if the impossible eventuates, it cannot possibly be justified in rational terms. Hence the vicious and violent reactions of the mob that took to the streets in “Blue States” after the the results sank in. These types — so convinced of their own self-righteousness — have become completely detached from the experience of the working class. That class was once the core constituency of orthodox Marxists, but since they failed to usher in the Revolution, they have become the must hated demographic of post-Marxist progressives whose politics is now predicated on their political and cultural dispossession. The below compilation illustrates this mindset:
Consider the distribution of press endorsements for Republican and Democrat presidential candidates from 1988 through to 2016:
Expectantly, according to Gallop studies, levels of public trust in the maisntream press have been in solid decline for well over a decade:
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