Who knew President Trump was foreshadowing the fallout of his election when he chose his de facto campaign song — The Rolling Stones’, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want?”
Indeed — to quote the song — there have been hordes of detractors figuratively singing, “We’re going to vent our frustration. If we don’t, we’re going to blow a 50 amp fuse.”
The deafening pop you heard at approximately 2:40 a.m. last Nov. 9th was the sound of said fuse, as media outlets began calling the election.
The crackling noise thereafter is the continued cry-bullying taking place on the fringe left. Just last week, domestic terrorists at Cal-Berkeley physically assaulted attendees of a Milo Yiannopoulos event while causing an estimated $100,000 in damage to the campus.
Meanwhile, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer was literally crying following the Trump administration’s refugee freeze — less than 2 years after calling for a tightening of the Visa Waiver Program and openly declaring that a freeze needed to be considered.
Senator Schumer is just one of many elected Democrats to feign outrage. Yet, their sympathy was nonexistent when the bodies of Middle Eastern civilians were piling up due to the Obama administration’s drone strikes. In fact, the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recipient wielded these largely unsuccessful strikes at a rate ten times greater than his predecessor George W. Bush.
Nary a crocodile tear was shed when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad brazenly deployed chemical weapons to slaughter his own people and crossed Obama’s “red line” without repercussions. Obama’s reluctance to militarily intervene on behalf of Syrian civilians exacerbated the refugee crisis.
Failed policies and poor decisions such as these disempowered Democrats nationwide. Over the past eight years, Democrats have ceded 11 Senate seats, 62 House seats and 12 governorships. In total, 1,042 state and federal Democratic positions were lost.
Currently, the confirmation of several of President Trump’s cabinet nominees are being delayed by obstructionists. However, these delays are temporary as the minority party is effectively powerless and remains oblivious as to why.
Outside the official politics of Washington, every leftist with a platform seemingly sees it fit to lecture others.
For example, actress Meryl Streep turned the Golden Globes into a political tirade, sneering at the lowly football and mixed martial arts-watching commoners. A week later, the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers met in the playoffs and boasted a 28.2 overnight television rating compared to the Golden Globes’ humble 5.6.
Further, several NFL players knelt for our national anthem, joining San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in protest against supposed racial inequalities. Not surprisingly, NFL ratings were down throughout the regular season. Seton Hall’s Sharkey Institute conducted two polls to determine the cause of the decline, and each time respondents identified the anthem protests as a primary factor.
Entire companies such as beverage giants Starbucks and Anheuser-Busch also made ill-advised entrances into the political realm.
Shortly after Starbucks announced global plans to hire 10,000 refugees in response to the refugee freeze, the company’s stock plummeted 3.47%.
Anheuser-Busch hired comedians Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen to appear in advertisements to give liberal commentary on social issues. The ads were axed prematurely after product sales dropped in the third quarter leading up to the election.
This moral elitism and “politically correct culture” provokes its followers to lecture others, and the left felt the consequences last November. They lost and their condescending diatribes played a role in their decisive defeat.
None of this is to say that leftists can’t have their opinions. Rather, their professional platforms shouldn’t be abused to broadcast them. People are growing increasingly weary of these hyper-politicized actions and are using their voices, votes, and wallets to be heard.
Christopher Godail is a 27-year-old interdisciplinary studies junior from Kenner, Louisiana.