As the campus stares dumbfounded at another Trump victory, many on the left still do not get it. “How could Trump win? Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce, and even Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris, and who would ever vote against those celebrities? All my friends support Harris; if they didn’t, we would not be friends. All my followers heart my story when I make grandiose political statements that if they ever opposed I would block. So if Trump won the answer must be racism.

Wait, Trump received 45 percent of the Latino vote, sorry the Latinx vote,. all Trump voters must be racist against blacks. Wait, Obama won Latinos handily; well it must be sexism. That is how Trump won: everyone is racist and sexist and if I keep telling them that they will vote for the left again. This outright denial is only professed by the supposed “educated elite.”

Many on campus and in America do not get how Trump won; it is Saturday Night Live’s 2016 election skit all over again. The hubris from the left, seeing no way their candidate could lose, and then blaming the loss on bigotry of voters. The only thing missing was Dave Chapelle and Chris Rock cracking jokes at the left’s expense in real time. In large part, the loss was because of the economy. Despite what the experts, who said inflation was transitory and who redefined the common understanding of a........

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