Eric Boehlert: Who cares about Trump voters' feelings?

[babylonsister]

https://pressrun.media/p/who-cares-about-trump-voters-feelings

Who cares about Trump voters' feelings?
It's not news
Eric Boehlert
46 min ago


Shining an unprecedented spotlight on supporters of the losing presidential candidate, the press continues its four-year love affair with Trump voters. Forever centering them as the unequivocal focal point of American politics, news outlets are making sure to check in on them as they defiantly reject Trump’s lopsided electoral loss to Joe Biden.

Journalists are swooping into GOP-friendly outposts such as Youngstown, Ohio (ABC News), Colorado Springs (Washington Post), and Mason, Texas (New York Times), for what seem like group-hug sessions, as the press continues to give close-minded Trump supporters a platform to spread untrue claims about the election and about Biden.

“Did I miss all the stories about the 78 million Biden supporters who triumphed — and their wants and needs — and how rural-centric Trump supporters need to reach out and understand the massive urban/suburban majority in America?” asked SiriusXM host, Michael Signorile, watching the flood of media attention given to Trump loyalists in recent days.

The media’s firm fixation on Trump voters isn’t normal — the idea that our politics needs to concern itself with the bruised feelings of voters who supported the presidential loser has no basis in how the press traditionally views the election season. And yet, here we are as the press rushes in to hear and amplify Trump voters’ anger, angst and concern about the president’s loss, and push fabricated claims about voter fraud.

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• “I don’t see how Michigan could vote blue after everything that’s happened to us. It doesn’t make sense to me.”

• “Biden is in bed with China.”

• “For me to believe that Joe Biden got 78 million votes, I find that very hard to believe."

• “I will never accept a Biden win.”

• “These mystery votes all came in for Biden and zero for Trump. Something is definitely fishy there.”

• “I will not believe that [Biden] is a legitimate winner.”

• “Everything I worked for, Biden wants to give to the immigrants to help them live, when they don’t do nothing but sit on their butts.”

• “It was a recipe for disaster when they decided to have these mail-in votes.”

• “When we deal with globalists and liberalism, I would put absolutely nothing past them.”

What’s the point of this endless media exercise? What’s the news value in providing a platform for Trump voters so they can regurgitate these hollow, and often hateful, claims on behalf of a candidate who just became only the fourth U.S. incumbent president in 150 years to lose his re-election bid?

Trump voters’ feelings aren’t news.

[malaise]

1. Not me

It's not news

[Docreed2003]

2. K&R

[FakeNoose]

3. Haven't we been hearing this for the last 4 years?

OK

[Celerity]

6. yes, there was the multi-chinned, missing chromosome, matching set of bawbags

my feelings say FOAD

[DinahMoeHum]

28. Payback is a motherfucker, ain't it?

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

12. They certainly didn't care...

...about our feelings four years ago. The press and the Right just told us to get over it. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and they need to get over their their bruised fee fees.

Or is this like the Gorsuch nomination? One set of stanards for them and a different one for us?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

14. I'll give them one whole nanosecond to get over their feelings

Which is vastly more than they gave us in 2016.

[Gothmog]

4. I do not care about these assholes

[NCjack]

32. +1

[magicarpet]

5. Fabricated Reality Television,...

.... the new Soap Opera....

Thank you very much,... but I would rather drink Drano.

[wnylib]

23. That's it exactly, a media reality show.

Amp up the divisions for the sake of ratings and who gives a damn if it results in such intense anger that violence breaks out, or the foundation of the country is at risk? That's just more "excitement" to report on and boost ratings even more.

Stupid fools. How free would their reporting be if a Trump coup was successful?

[wcast]

7. The following quote needs to be the answer to every media question about Trump voters.

“Did I miss all the stories about the 78 million Biden supporters who triumphed — and their wants and needs — and how rural-centric Trump supporters need to reach out and understand the massive urban/suburban majority in America?” asked SiriusXM host, Michael Signorile, watching the flood of media attention given to Trump loyalists in recent days.

[Pacifist Patriot]

35. Agreed!

[Lonestarblue]

8. I'm beyond tired of this nonsense.

The logistics would be a horror, but I’ve finally reached the point where I want to split into two countries. Let the Trampers create their own dystopia and leave us alone to build a country with a future. Democratic areas already create a large majority of the GDP (over 70%), and if we did not have the albatross of red states that take a lot and contribute a little we could build a fantastic country.

I know it’s a fantasy, but I feel like we will have no peace for the rest of my life because we will be fighting Trumpism and total ignorance all the time. Even when Trump leaves office, he will still use social media to roil his supporters until the day he dies or can no longer remember his own name (may that day come quickly). Every future election will be a nightmare because the Trump cult will just refuse to accept a Democratic win even for governors in red states.

New York prosecutions may have some impact, but I just cannot see the result being jail time for Trump, much as I would like that. And with his crazy supporters refusing even to acquire a passing acquaintance with the truth, turning him into a martyr persecuted by Democrats. What a mess.

[Turin_C3PO]

38. As long as New Mexico

is included in our new blue country, I’m all in.

Realistically and logistically it’ll never happen. Too much intertwined money and other interests. But it is a nice fantasy.

[Lonestarblue]

40. If it ever happened, I would have to leave Texas.

I could move to New Mexico and add to the blue population. I especially like Santa Fe.

[Turin_C3PO]

43. New Mexico is a great state.

Just don’t move to the eastern portion of the state. Starting in Alamogordo, east NM is very conservative and similar to west Texas. As you said Santa Fe is great along with most of the rest of northern NM, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and Grant County in the Southwest. Grant County is rural but for whatever reason, we’re pretty liberal and always vote blue.

[Blue Owl]

9. The RW'ers and their precious feelings

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. "the press continues its four-year love affair with Trump voters"

[NoMoreRepugs]

11. If they are so STUPID they believe a serial liar, why in

the world would their thoughts about ANYTHING have relevance in the real world??? Baffling to me.

[emanymton69]

13. Absolutely! I Could Not Care less.

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Who cares? And why care?

"... the idea that our politics needs to concern itself with the bruised feelings of voters who supported the presidential loser" is a waste of time and of no interest to me. The onus is on the MAGAts to get over their having fallen for the con. Accept the truth, they lost and USA won.

Why MAGAts were willing to accept the lies, distortions, slanders, and slurs is for the MAGAts to learn. They were willing to follow and betray their families, themselves, their gods, and their country. It is up to the MAGAts to learn from their mistakes.

Ema Nymton
~ @ : o }
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[StarfishSaver]

15. This is a great piece. Thanks for sharing it!

[bringthePaine]

16. freakshow opened when both goddam sides ditched The Fairness Doctrine - shitshow ensued

[DownriverDem]

17. Michigan voted for

mail in/drop off voting in the Midterms of 2018. Per the 1st listed comment (lavender box) what exactly did happen that didn't make sense in Michigan?

[not fooled]

18. I fear that this is a prelude to letting

nonsense-spouting red don cult members become the go-to opposition to Biden's presidency.

Whenever Biden comes out with policy decisions, the media will run to these delusional cretins for the "opposing viewpoint."

They will continue to get widespread media coverage and the media will confer "legitimacy" onto their crackpottery.

And, underlying all this nonsense, is the desire in the boardrooms of these media companies to continue covering red don and his spew because ratings.

[wnylib]

27. The movie, Network, comes off the screen

to become a living reality.

[LaMouffette]

19. It's all about the ratings. News stories about conflict are more attention grabbing than stories

about everybody getting along and coexisting in peace and harmony and working together to solve society's problems. That's why the outraged Trump voters are getting more airtime than the elated Biden voters.

Conflict and "dirty laundry," as Don Henley would say, make for juicier news, therefore more viewer eyeballs they can sell to advertisers.

[niyad]

20. "Imbecile attention". I clearly need more caffeine!

[Brother Mythos]

21. I care as much about the RWNJs feelings as they care about mine.

Seems fair to me!

[Paladin]

22. Fuck trump voters, and their feelings. Now and forever more. (nt)

[keithbvadu2]

24. This should be a bumper sticker

Trump and his evangelicals bumper sticker

[klook]

41. Trumpvangelicals

The new face of the Republican Party.

[ooky]

25. I didn't know they had feelings. They certainly didn't show any when

Trump took babies away from their mothers.

[AmBlue]

44. oh, but fetuses eom

[yaesu]

26. MSM is profit driven & if it bleeds, it leads, end of story. nt

[Hotler]

29. I think it's time for "Get over it." yards signs. nt

[reACTIONary]

30. I think it's because it's a freak show. Biden supporters ...

... are so normal.

[andym]

31. Trump voters are now by and large brainwashed by Trump and the Right-wing propaganda machine

and would need deprogramming

[Bernardo de La Paz]

33. 2008 Ds "must reach out"; 2016 Ds must reach out; 2020 Ds must reach out: It's the RW turn NOW.

[sandensea]

34. The media only "cares" about them b/c their fascist views serve Big Business interests

Corporate and Wall Street interests have long understood that radicalizing these Jim Crows and Archie Bunkers was their surest bet toward making even modest reforms all but impossible.

These are people whom Republican elites normally refer to as "cannon fodder" - at best.

[BlueJac]

36. The media will miss their #1 headliner,

He makes 78 million voters sick of hearing his name!

[Lock him up.]

37. To add more new voters who pay attention to our side.

Hopefully, in GA, and in 2022. And in 2024. These nuts' quotes should help recruit more new Dems, but if the drumpf mob escapes Justice after refusing to prosecute it, probably won't.

[AmBlue]

39. It was the same with the Tea Party

There was an inordinant amount of media attention given to whatever the Tea Party was doing 8 years ago, even when it was only a couple hundred protesters gathered. Now its funder, billionaire Charles Koch, says that was all a mistake.

In a democracy, it is supposed to be that every vote is counted, majority rules, and we move forward. The remedy when you lose an election is still-- and always has been-- THE NEXT ELECTION. When your candidate is not the winner, you take seat, and work hard for next time.

These people are ACTIVELY working to BREAK America's foundations. They should be given NO airtime. To the contrary, their seditious rantings need to be stomped out, and relegated to the dustbin of history.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

42. It makes for good ratings. nt

[crickets]

45. Any and all pushback against this narrative is a good thing.

I'm sick of the country being held hostage by trump, whether directly or through his minions.

[llashram]

46. this

their feelings? I DON'T CARE. Will I ever care? They are all racist pigs in my book. They will always be according to their statements and obvious feelings about melanin enhanced Americans.

[shrike3]

47. I thought Bill Maher said it was all because of cancel culture and political correctness and us not

wanting to let things go. IOW, I thought it was all our fault.

[JackHughes]

48. Trump Chumps

If the Trump Chumps are shocked by Biden's victory -- even after 250,000 Americans died and the economy crashed due to Trump's ineptitude and denial -- maybe it will give them an inkling of an idea how WE felt when that egregiously dishonest ignoramus was elected in 2016.

[HermitageHermit]

49. The Media companies care

Trump voters are a sufficiently large minority, sore feelings could discourage folks from viewing their programs and buying their products.

The concern of the media is with their own companies, not whether the government or their neighbors hurt the feelings of Republicans.

[Cha]

50. I don't give a shit about brainwashed maggots..

And, Biden/Harris Broke the "79 Million Barrier" last night!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

51. Fuck their feelings

[NoRoadUntravelled]

52. They voted. Their candidate lost. End of story. nt