The Patriot Post Digest 11-10-2016

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The Patriot Post Digest 11-10-2016
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Mid-Day Digest

Nov. 10, 2016

IN TODAY’S EDITION

When leftists don’t get their way, they throw tantrums in the streets.
Hillary Clinton was so uninspiring, she underperformed Obama by 10 million votes.
The Leftmedia failed not by reporting opinion, but by telling people what they should think.
Obama has two months left, and he may take the gloves off to get things done.
And more news, policy and opinion.

THE FOUNDATION

“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” —John Adams (1797)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Democrats Protest Democracy1

Yesterday, America awoke to the unexpected reality that Donald Trump was president-elect2. Many Americans felt some combination of relief, excitement and optimism after being fed up with the last eight years of Washington elitists foisting their socialist agenda upon the country. But most Democrats expressed shock, dismay and disbelief as they saw their grip on national power evaporate overnight.

What do leftists do when their candidate loses? Protest, violently if “necessary.”

From New York City to San Francisco, Boston to Austin, DC to Seattle, Chicago to Portland, angry and disgruntled leftists spilled into the streets, holding up signs and chanting, “Not my president.” In Chicago, hundreds gathered outside Trump International Hotel and Tower shouting, “No Trump! No KKK! No racist USA!” One young woman holding up a sign that read, “Enjoy your rights while you can,” said, “I’m just really terrified about what is happening in this country.”

In Oakland, the protesting crowd grew to 6,000 and began rioting by smashing windows and setting fires so that law enforcement was brought in to quell the situation. Neighboring San Francisco saw hundreds of people marching and chanting “Donald Trump has got to go.” One woman brought her five-year-old son to the protest and said through tears, “I don’t know how to explain to him the state of the world. I want him to understand that there aren’t all evil people out there.” Well, she certainly could have chosen a better venue to seek to reinforce that ideal.

What is truly ironic about leftist action and rhetoric is the fact that what they claim to fear and decry is the very thing they practice3. By labeling those who disagree with their point of view as bigots and racists, they are displaying the very hate they claim to be combating. And it’s truly ironic that the “Democratic” Party has the most trouble adhering to and practicing the ideals of “democracy.”

What Was Clinton’s Failure?4

As many attempt to explain how Hillary Clinton lost the election despite all the manifest weaknesses of her opponent, all the support5 she received from the Leftmedia, and a huge pile of campaign cash, one reason more than any other seems to be on the top of the list. She was a uniquely bad candidate the DNC believed it could force to the top.

In 2008, the then-New York senator couldn’t garner even 40% of the Democrat primary vote and lost to that upstart and rather unknown junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama. Though never admitted publicly by the DNC, there was much talk that, this time around, it was Hillary’s turn. That was confirmed6 by the WikiLeaks release of the DNC’s hacked emails, which revealed the effort to defeat upstart Bernie Sanders. The DNC succeeded in securing the nomination for Clinton, but not the presidency.

As for Donald Trump, he didn’t win because of racism, as so many within the Leftmedia are claiming. In fact, the numbers show that Trump won less of the white vote and more of the black and Hispanic vote than did Mitt Romney. Clinton received less of the minority vote than did Obama in 2012. Overall, Hillary won six million fewer votes than Obama in ‘12, and 10 million fewer than Obama in '08. It would seem the Democrats’ usual identity politics failed to work as well without Obama at the top of the ticket.

Hillary’s uninspiring and awkward personality, which manifests in a noxious superiority complex, combined with her abysmal record and her commitment to deceitfulness, was too much to overcome. Many Americans simply found her unbearable.

It’s Gloves Off in Obama’s Final Two Months7

Barack Obama has demonstrated great contempt for Rule of Law during his eight years in office. From the Iran nuclear deal to the Paris climate agreement — and myriad other executive actions and unilaterally enacted regulations far too numerous to list — Obama perennially stretched and breached the boundaries afforded the executive branch. As a Washington Examiner editorial aptly put it8, “Obama’s most egregious mistake … was to govern as though his opinion was the only one worth considering.”

That’s a mistake the next president, Donald Trump, must avoid. In the meantime, Obama has two months left in the Oval Office to unleash what’s left of his agenda. For him, now that Hillary Clinton won’t be his successor, that means the gloves are off. For us, that means a slew of unilateral diktats may be coming down the pipe.

“Look out for the executive orders, the ‘midnight’ regulations and, perhaps most controversially, the pardons,” The Washington Times warns9. “As President Obama runs out the clock on his eight-year tenure, analysts say, he still has plenty of business left undone, and they expect him to follow the lead of other presidents and issue a series of rules, to add to his list of executive orders, to continue his record-setting pace of commutations and perhaps add a controversial pardon or two into the mix.”

In his remarks on Tuesday’s stunning upset2, Barack Obama said, “We’re all on the same team.” He can prove it by rejecting the anticipated onslaught of partisan jabs as he prepares to vacate the White House. Unfortunately, history suggests that’s asking too much. Let’s hope Trump holds true to his promise by rolling back Obama’s decrees and bandaging the rifts.

U.S. Marines Corps Birthday10

On Nov. 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress resolved to create two battalions of Continental Marines for the War of Independence from Britain. In 1798, President John Adams signed the Act establishing the United States Marine Corps. The 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, General John A. Lejeune, issued Marine Corps Order No. 47, Series 1921, directing that on Nov. 10 every year, in honor of the Corps' birthday11, the Order’s summary of the history, mission and tradition of the Corps be read to every command.

We at The Patriot Post offer our thanks for a job well done. For those interested in great items bearing the Marine Corps' insignia, please visit The Patriot Post Shop12. Semper Fi!

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BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

Victor Davis Hanson: A Blow to the Non-Elite Elite15
Terence Jeffrey: Trump’s Great Challenge — and Opportunity16
Ryan T. Anderson: Make Religious Freedom Great Again17

For more, visit Right Opinion18.

TOP HEADLINES

What Meltdown? Stock Market Leaps19
Republicans Plot Ambitious Agenda20
Obama Won’t Rule Out Clinton Pardon21

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report22.

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FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
The Leftmedia’s Real Failure This Election5

They didn’t misread opinion; they tried to dictate it.

By Allyne Caan

When Election Day arrived, The New York Times' online election forecaster24 gave Hillary Clinton an 85% chance of winning; Trump, 15%. While the Times admitted a Trump victory was “possible,” they deemed Clinton’s chances of losing “about the same as the probability that an N.F.L. kicker misses a 37-yard field goal.” Kick — no good.

As results began coming in, though, the lines on the Times' Clinton-Trump victory probability graph began closing in on each other. Then, the unthinkable happened: those lines crossed. Trump’s odds bested Clinton’s, and hours before the race was called, the Times gave Trump a 95% chance of coming out on top.

While the big story is, of course, the election outcome, the story behind the story is media malpractice. It’s not that the media and pollsters misread the opinions of the American electorate; it’s that they were trying to dictate opinion to the American electorate — pollaganda — using polling as propaganda to influence public opinion rather than gage it.

Ironically, just a couple of months ago, NY Times columnist Jim Rutenberg argued25 on the Times' front page that journalists covering Trump had a responsibility to be biased — that they would “have to throw out the textbook.” In fact, the Times' Senior Editor for Politics, Carolyn Ryan, called Trump’s candidacy “extraordinary and precedent-shattering” and that “to pretend otherwise is to be disingenuous with readers.” Thus the need for skewed coverage.

And yet, the media failed to see the real reason for Trump’s looming victory: voter anger at the elite media establishment.

Faced with the fact of journalism’s great failure, Rutenberg this week wrote26, “All the dazzling technology, the big data and the sophisticated modeling that American newsrooms bring to the fundamentally human endeavor of presidential politics could not save American journalism from yet again being behind the story, behind the rest of the country. The news media by and large missed what was happening all around it. … The numbers weren’t just a poor guide for election night — they were an off-ramp away from what was actually happening.”

The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan echoed this observation27: “To put it bluntly, the media missed the story. In the end, a huge number of American voters wanted something different. And although these voters shouted and screamed it, most journalists just weren’t listening.”

In other words, the media didn’t want to believe Trump could win, so they looked the other way. “It would be too horrible,” Sullivan wrote. “So, therefore, according to some kind of magical thinking, it couldn’t happen.” By her explanation, the media couldn’t believe such a bigoted misogynist racist3 might win. Of course, this same media had no problem helping a traitor who jeopardized national security and left Americans to die while scapegoating a filmmaker.

In truth, journalists didn’t take some sort of moral high ground by ignoring the possible; they became the bigots they claim to hate. As The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto writes28, “It’s not just that journalists were naïve or even ignorant, it’s that their work was suffused with hostility, even bigotry. … Motivated by prejudice, many in the media threw aside standards of fairness and balance and even the pretense thereof. That didn’t prevent a Trump presidency and might even have helped bring it about.”

We’d argue it definitely helped bring it about. Telling the electorate that Hillary was right about them being “irredeemable” and a “basket of deplorables29” created a predictable backlash.

The mainstream media has so enclosed itself in the bubble of liberal elitism that they think their world is the world. And they need their own “safe spaces” when their world is challenged.

It’s little wonder, then, that after living so long in a state of denial, the media melted down30 over Trump’s win. ABC’s Terry Moran called it “a rejection of the neo-liberal world order that, uh, really has been the consensus of governments across the West and across the world for a generation.” CNN’s Van Jones said people are asking, “How do I explain this to my children?” and called the results a “whitelash against a black president.” And MSNBC’s ever classy Rachel Maddow told her viewers, “You’re not dead and you haven’t gone to hell. This is your life now.” (As Mike Huckabee joked31, “It’s true. TVs in Hell only show MSNBC.”)

In reality, the media missed the story not out of error or ineptitude but out of willful narrow-mindedness that simply couldn’t admit there is a world out there that doesn’t think like they do. It’s called America.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

Cracking Down on MS-13 Gang-Bangers32 — We have enough criminals. We don’t need to import them.
Trump Violates Safe Spaces33 — Exams canceled, fearful students, lawsuits — it’s all a sign of a reality check.

OPINION IN BRIEF

Victor Davis Hanson: “Despite their brand-name Ivy League degrees and 1 percenter resumes, dozens of the highly paid grandees who run our country and shape our news appear petty and spiteful — and clueless about the America that exists beyond their Beltway habitat. Leveraging rich people for favors and money seems an obsession. They brag about wealth and status in the fashion of preteens. Journalists often violated their own ethics codes during the campaign. Political analyst Donna Brazile even leaked debate topics to the Clinton team. Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank reportedly asked the Democratic National Committee to provide him with anti-Trump research. Reading about the characters who inhabit the Clinton campaign email trove, one wonders about the purpose of their Yale degrees, their tenures at Goldman Sachs, even their very stints in the Clinton campaign. Was the end game to lose their souls? … It became easy to say that a ‘crude’ Trump and ‘crooked’ Clinton polluted the 2016 campaign. The real culprits were a corrupt Washington elite, who were as biased as they were incompetent — and clueless about how disliked they were by the very America they held in such contempt.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.” —Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Demo-gogues: “We have to remember that we’re actually all on one team. … We’re not Democrats first. We’re not Republicans first. We are Americans first. We’re patriots first. We all want what’s best for this country.” —Barack Obama, who is decidedly NOT a Patriot

Race bait: “This was a ‘white-lash’ against a changing country … against a black president in part. And that’s the part where the pain comes.” —Van Jones

Bewilderment: “There are a lot of people … who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, who voted for his re-election in 2012, and voted for Donald Trump in 2016. I don’t have an explanation for that, to put it bluntly.” —Josh Earnest

Bottom line: “Hillary’s problem is not that she is a woman; it’s that she is Hillary.” —Andrew McCarthy

Non Compos Mentis: “Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared to be wearing her infamous ‘dissent jabot’ on the bench Wednesday morning. The move is being widely interpreted as a repudiation of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election a night earlier.” —The Hill (“So much for a Supreme Court that stands above politics.” —Keith Koffler)

Dezinformatsia: “Winner: Michelle Obama: The soon-to-be-former first lady may be the only Democrat who emerges from this dumpster fire of an election in good shape. She was the unquestioned star of the 2016 campaign, delivering the two best speeches … anyone gave in the race. And now Michelle Obama will be the first name on the lips of many Democrats already preparing for the 2020 presidential race against Trump.” —Washington Post

And last… “Pretty incredible to see one day after polls close and the progressive left still out in force campaigning for Trump.” —Stephen Miller

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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