The media have totally discredited themselves during this election (but also the 08 and 12 elections as well), Trump shouldn’t let them up easy. He should continue to call them out for their rabid dishonesty. I watched CNN for a while last night, and they haven’t learned a lesson at all, all their coverage of the anti-Trump riots was essentially justifying them, and blaming Trump and his supporters for the riots and violence. From what I’ve seen of the print media’s coverage, they are doing the same thing.
It looks like the next 4 or 8 years will be just a continuation of the media madness that we’ve seen over the last year, and it wouldn’t surprise me any if they even ratchet up the negativity and attacks.
The media see Trump’s victory as a personal defeat for them, and they are going to be in full-scale attack mode, not only attacking Trump but attacking those who voted for him.
Thanks Maggie for your post.
They will be unified against their common enemy Trump, and our side will have too much to think about to get unified to fight them. They will have only the next election in mind while we will be competing with each other to influence the president’s agenda.
I do not know how he will lead. I reckon that he will get to work saving the country and ignore the future elections. Perhaps he will establish priorities and insist that we all get behind them. We all work together, putting our own individual, hot-button, emotion-charged issues aside for a while. He provokes the Democrats to defend their turf. He wins on some lesser, easier issues while seeing the weakness in the enemy’s strategy.
When he takes on Obamacare, it will be ugly, but it will be a clear fight and we will be behind him because he will show us how to win. Furthermore the win will count for something beyond the next election. Four years from now you will not remember that you ever wanted to start a new party. Republican incumbents in the next 2 Senate elections will not even be thought of as weak or compromising.
An election is only a means to and end! We do not need to win a horse race; we must save the country!