US media Trump's election, conservatives say 'economic failure', liberals say 'Democratic Party obsessed with the past'
While conservatives evaluated Trump's election as 'Biden's economic failure and Trumpnomics victory', progressive media pointed to 'disguised progressivism' as 'the fall of the Democratic Party stuck in the past'.
The conservative 'Breitbart' said that Americans were angry at the way the Democratic Party handled the economy, and that Trump's victory was "a mandate from Trumpnomics."
Jeet Heer, a correspondent for the progressive 'The Nation', pointed out that Vice President Harris's defeat was "because Democrats were stuck in the past in a country that 'desperately wants change'."
The article was titled, “This Time, We Must Hold the Democratic Elites Accountable for This Disaster,” and the subtitle, “Trump Won Because the Opposition Is Committed to Restoring the Old System in a Country That Desperately Wants Change,” stated, “To the point of self-destruction, Harris has tied herself to the policies of the unpopular incumbent, Joe Biden,” and “This has provided an easy path for Trump to once again become a voice of discontent and change.” The common denominator in the analyses of conservative and progressive newspapers is their different tendencies toward “deep discontent in America” and “the downfall of the Democratic Party due to its failure to understand discontent.”
The New York Times reported on the 8th, “Some on the right said Trump won because of what he called his ‘embracing of extreme political views from the left,’ while the right focused on Trump’s election as an expression of deep discontent among Americans with the economy under President Biden, which Vice President Harris defended.” “The left-wing media became more fragmented, with some saying that American voters had chosen to “burn everything down” by electing Trump, while others blamed the Democratic Party as a whole, saying that it had failed to communicate with voters on key issues and that Harris had lost by defending what the commentators saw as a broken system.”
Ben Shapiro, co-founder of the conservative Daily Wire, said on the live broadcast of “The Ben Shapiro Show” right after President Trump’s victory that “Vice President Harris is an ‘empty vessel’ that has failed to inspire voters,” and that “Voters have not only rejected Vice President Harris, but have shown that the last four years of Democratic rule are about returning to normal, and this morning it seems a little more normal,” and announced the restoration of Republican politics, and the New York Times diagnosed it on the 8th.
The podcast “Pod Save America,” hosted by former Obama aides and a progressive media outlet, analyzed what went wrong with Vice President Harris for an hour right after the election.
“Democrats need to rethink their strategy,” said Jon Favreau, the show’s co-host. “They can’t continue to defend a ‘broken system’ that many Americans want to see improved. Trump and his people want to burn it down. We don’t want to burn the system down, we want to fix it, “We need to become a party that wants to reform,” he diagnosed the presidential election results.
Michael Mechanic, a political desk reporter for the progressive newspaper Mother Jones Daily, pointed out ‘wealth inequality’ and ‘fear’ in an article titled <Why did Trump actually win? It’s simple, actually> and subtitled <When the economy is booming while half of the American population is struggling, something has to give> on the 7th.
Mechanic diagnosed Harris’s defeat as “Trump’s constant false claims. Property crime. Inflation. Interest rates. When the anxiety caused by the pandemic is not going away, the Democrats failed to sell the economic victory and Harris failed to distance herself from an unpopular president.” “Inflation is back, but groceries are not, and there are few things that make people more angry and frustrated than the feeling that no matter how hard they work, they can’t move forward.”