Why the Left Secretly Loves Trump

Forget all the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the left. That’s just for show. Remember that the left was never very enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton, and are not sorry to have seen her lose. Trump’s victory, however, provides the left with something much more important that patronage in Washington DC: it provides them with the supposed evidence to bolster their essential hatred and contempt for America, and endless opportunities to proclaim and parade their supposed moral superiority over their fellow citizens.

I’ve been waiting for concrete evidence in the form of a confession from a certified liberal source, and Slate has stepped up!

2016 Was the Year White Liberals Realized How Unjust, Racist, and Sexist America Is

By L.V. Anderson

The sense of disillusionment white American liberals woke up with on Nov. 9 was powerful enough to taint the entire year with a sense of doom. So many illusions were shattered by the election of Donald Trump: about the media, polling, the Democrats’ vaunted ground game, the fundamental character of our fellow citizens, the viability of the American experiment. . .

After Trump’s election, it is more or less impossible to believe that we are making meaningful progress. White liberals who woke up horrified on Nov. 9 weren’t horrified because the world had suddenly changed—we were horrified because the scales had finally fallen from our eyes, and we could at least see our unjust, racist, sexist country for what it is.

There. Doesn’t that feel so much better if you’re a liberal than the phrase “President Hillary Clinton”? And liberals will get to carry on in their favorite mode of outrage and contempt for America for the next four years. I’m going to enjoy every minute of it.

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