President-elect Donald Trump’s 2016 electoral victory was met with fierce opposition in the form of a self-styled #Resistance intent on countering his every move. Now, they’re nowhere to be found.
Following Trump’s 2016 win, a triumph in which he secured an electoral victory but not the popular vote, his detractors immediately mobilized, organizing science marches, engaging in meme-worthy meltdowns and participating in the infamous Pink Vagina Hat Parade.
Following Trump’s recent win, though, The Resistance has been noticeably muted.
“Already, my wave of Facebook friends, Instagram friends, they’re already tuning out. Why should any of us care about the confirmations?” Hugo Walker, a Connecticut-based Democrat asked media veteran Mark Halperin in a Thursday edition of the “2Way Tonight” YouTube show.
“I want to care more,” Walker continued. “I read a bunch of stuff today, posted a lot of stuff, I got crickets. Just a couple of snarky comments about recess confirmations and that was just about it.”
Halperin concurred, saying he’s noticed that Democrats are checked out.
Jill Abramson, a former executive editor at the New York Times, chimed in, contrasting the left’s current vibe with their fervor after Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss.
“Much more overt, kind of, let’s get in the streets and protest,” she said of 2016. “It seems like people have been, on the left and Democrats, have been hit by a sledgehammer,” Abramson noted.
“I think what they’re having a lot of trouble kind of dealing with. is that the election showed that the country has moved to the right,” she continued.
“They’re kind of in mourning over that,” Abramson concluded.
While some states are still tallying incoming votes, Trump appears to be the first Republican presidential nominee to capture the popular vote since George W. Bush did so in 2004.
Moreover, besides winning all seven battleground swing states, Trump made gains in virtually every state in the union, including in historically blue counties like in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley.
That rightward shift, as Abramson pointed out, has contributed to The Resistance’s muted mood.
“I’m much less shocked than I was eight years ago, and I’m a lot more tired,” Jonathan Morrill, a 53-year-old Harris supporter told the New York Times.
Even the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” perennial Trump critics who have previously likened the former President to Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler, appear to be softening after paying Trump a visit in Florida.
“Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to speak personally with President-elect Trump, it was the first time we have seen him in seven years,” the show’s co-host Mika Brzezinski announced Monday.
The tone-shift could be the result of the typically anti-Trump broadcast reading the tea leaves. Left-wing media outlets are watching their audiences wither away.
The Washington Post reportedly lost eight percent of its subscriber base when owner Jeff Bezos scuttled the editorial board’s endorsement of Kamala Harris.
MSNBC and CNN both shed millions of viewers following their election night letdown, according to the Daily Beast.
And ABC’s “The View,” a notoriously anti-Trump cacophony of female daytime talk show hosts, is reportedly in “panic mode” following Trump’s victory, according to the New York Post.
Independent media, too, has seen its numbers dwindle in what appears to be an audience exodus for left-wing media.
David Pakman, a popular left-wing commentator with over 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube, decried a post-election phenomenon of him losing thousands of subscribers on the platform.
“When I woke up this morning, we had lost 5,000 YouTube subscribers compared to where we were last night,” Pakman noted in a Nov. 6 YouTube video.
Pakman said he texted a number of other left-wing creators who all reported the same phenomenon.
“Every single one of our channels, since last night, is hemorrhaging subscribers,” he noted.
“It is not just YouTube subscribers. We are seeing record cancellations of paid memberships,” he added.
Some of the commenters on Pakman’s videos echoed sentiments shared by other leftists.
“Loads of my friends have said they don’t want to watch anything about news or politics for the next few years,” one commenter wrote. “The ones that I speak to on social media only have closed their accounts. They posted goodbye messages then left. I feel like half my community just went to ground and I’m surveying the wasteland by myself. Something died in a lot of people today.” (And doesn't it feel good??? Here's to the death of liberalism in America! May it rot in peace. - De)
There have been a smattering of anti-Trump demonstrations this year. Opposition gathered in New York on Saturday for the Protect Our Futures march, though they were unable to eclipse the energy of rival Trump supporters, according to the Times.
“Where is everybody?” one attendee asked, according to the outlet.
The left is not completely giving up the fight, continuing to kick up dust over many of Trump’s selections to serve in his cabinet.
And while The Resistance’s popular front may be faltering, the internal effort within the U.S. government to oppose Trump is alive and well.
Pentagon officials have reportedly been meeting in secret to scheme up scenarios in which they could/would be able to counter direct orders from the President.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which Trump tapped controversial environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead, is taking similar measures to “hardwire” Biden-era climate work into the agency, according to Politico.
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