Tuesday’s Big Losers Beyond Harris: Hollywood, Liz Cheney, Lawfare
The Biggest Loser? After Tuesday, it’s not just the title of the long-running reality TV weight-loss show anymore.
The biggest loser of the Nov. 5 elections, undeniably, was Vice President Kamala Harris. Despite raising and spending a staggering $1 billion in campaign cash and having the sycophantic support of the Hollywood glitterati, the now-lame duck vice president was decisively defeated in her bid for promotion to the presidency.
Voters ensured she wouldn’t become the latest example of 1970s bestselling author Lawrence Peter’s “Peter Principle” theorem that people get promoted in a hierarchy until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent. Voters on Tuesday apparently concluded Harris had reached that point four years ago and resoundingly voted not to make that mistake again.
Harris demonstrated “Peter Principle”-level incompetence with her very first independent executive decision; namely, the choice of loopy leftist Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate.
Walz, a self-described “knucklehead,” brought to the Democratic ticket the frumpiness of George Constanza combined with the charisma of Elmer Fudd.
But while Harris and Walz were the biggest losers, they were far from the only big losers Tuesday night.
In no particular order, here are some of the many others who lost bigly:
Sen. Chuck Schumer: Voters demoted the New York Democrat from Senate majority leader to minority leader by kicking (at least) three longtime liberal Democratic senators—in Montana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania—to the curb.
Suddenly, but not surprisingly, abolishing the Senate filibuster is no longer a Democratic talking point. Talk of also abolishing the Electoral College has likewise gone away post-election, after the once and future President Donald Trump also won the popular vote in a nearly 5 million-vote landslide.
The “Blue Wall”: Even Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin couldn’t save Harris’ train wreck of a campaign.
The Left’s exploitation of the gender gap: Harris had a much larger gender gap among men than Trump had among women.
Liz Cheney: The Trump-hating former Republican congresswoman—resoundingly repudiated by Wyoming voters in 2022 after she cast her lot with Democrats on the kangaroo court Jan. 6 committee—campaigned extensively for Harris. Cheney’s dream of being tapped as defense secretary in a Harris administration is now kaput.
Political lawfare: Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith; New York state Attorney General Letitia James; Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis; and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will now have to find someone not named Trump to prosecute.
Hollywood: Cher and Barbra Streisand, Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, et al., your flight to Canada is now boarding at Gate 3. Make it a one-way ticket, please.
MSNBC: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow, Eugene Robinson and Jonathan Capehart, et al., see: Hollywood (above).
TV’s late-night “comics”: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers have replaced comedy monologues with leftist political rants. In the process, they’ve lost large swaths of their audiences. Johnny Carson, who poked good-natured fun at both sides, is rolling over in his grave.
“60 Minutes”: With its unapologetically dishonest editing of its interview with Harris to make her look more coherent than she really is, the long-running CBS newsmagazine show shredded what was left of its credibility. Ditto ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis and CBS’ Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan for their biased, one-sided “fact-checking” during the presidential and vice presidential debates.
The Lincoln Project: How much longer will these moneygrubbing, nominally Republican grifters be able to perpetuate their multimillion-dollar anti-Trump con?
Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers: Do they not realize (or care) just how non compos mentis they appear in their hysterical anti-Trump TikTok video rants? (Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik surely hopes not.)
Hitler: Democrats’ quadrennial vilification of their GOP presidential opponents with the “Hitler” epithet—which dates back 60 years to Barry Goldwater in 1964—has lost whatever impact it may have once had. Think “the boy who cried wolf.” No one other than the aforementioned Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers believes it anymore.
