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It barely took 24 hours for liberals to start protesting Donald Trump's victory on Tuesday. In fact, students walked out of school Wednesday morning and riots began in earnest that evening. But if liberals wanted to protest someone for Trump's success, they should be protesting themselves. In many ways, the Left brought Trump on the country, and it was completely avoidable if they had been just a little more reasonable.

Much has been written about the conservative media bubble, and not without reason. But a similar — and more pernicious — phenomenon is happening on the Left, and it is happening in the very seats of intellectual power. Liberals in the universities, the media, and the Democrat Party are largely responsible for Trump, and their echo chamber is so insulated they can barely see it.

Here are four ways American liberals brought Trump on themselves. If they want to protest someone, they should look in the mirror.

1. Enforcing political correctness.

Readers of PJ Media are likely familiar with the explosion of political correctness on college campuses. While the trend traces much further back, the recent fracas reached a fever pitch in the fall of last year: students complained that Halloween costumes constituted "cultural appropriation" and "microaggressions." The very idea of a microaggression — where speech or actions not intended to be insulting can be interpreted that way anyway — is arguably anti-free speech. But students took the idea and ran with it, demanding censorship.

From then on, things just started getting worse. A state university had a "stop white people" event for RA training. Racially segregated housing is making a comeback — only now it's black dorms ruled off limits to white people. Last month, University of California-Berkeley students formed a blockade to keep white people from using a bridge. Oh, and if you even disagree with "safe spaces," you're a white supremacist.

Students are being taught the ills of Western culture and history, but not its many positive contributions. Most college students now even think Americans invented slavery, an institution as old as history and universal in all developed cultures until Christians abolished it, twice, and starting in the West.

Given these recent events, is it any wonder that a group of young white males — constantly preached to about their "privilege" and the evils of their ancestors — are asserting themselves? The alt-right is racist and evil, but it is a backlash against the racial slant of today's political correctness.

Donald Trump's greatest strength — and his greatest sin in the eyes of liberals — was his much-vaunted ability to "tell it like it is." He was not afraid to say the politically incorrect thing, launching his campaign by calling many Mexican illegal immigrants rapists. Following the death of Kate Steinle two weeks beforehand, his immigration declarations struck a nerve.

If the Republican electorate wanted an anti-establishment candidate, they had a few to choose from. They did not have to vote for a man who had donated to Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2008 and who recently supported universal healthcare. They could have supported Ted Cruz, who was a true conservative, anti-establishment, and didn't have Trump's baggage. Of course, he didn't have Trump's name recognition either...

But the liberals were most scared of Donald Trump. Not only did he say unacceptable things, he was already a household name. Ted Cruz scared them, but Trump disgusted them, and Republicans loved that.

There was another reason political correctness helped Trump win. After Obergefell v. Hodges legalized gay marriage, conservatives became terrified that the Supreme Court would further enshrine liberal ideas into American law. The sudden emphasis on "transgender rights" further reminded conservatives that they had to fight back. Even those who would not have supported Trump normally voted for him to ensure a conservative Supreme Court, and political correctness convinced them it was now or never.

2. Crying wolf about Republican candidates.

Mitt Romney was "out of touch," a heartless millionaire, and responsible for his employee's death from cancer. Long before Trump attacked John McCain for being captured, liberals denigrated his military service in 2008. George W. Bush was a "fascist."

This month, Bill Maher admitted it was "wrong" to cry wolf about previous Republican candidates. After Democrats and liberals had called Bush a "fascist" when he clearly wasn't anything of the sort, it meant next to nothing when they said the same thing about Donald Trump, even though the label arguably fits him better.

Even President Obama was at a loss for words when attacking Trump. The president was forced to admit that he considered Trump in a different league than the other two Republicans he himself defeated. He argued that he "never thought" Romney and McCain couldn't do the job, but he considered Trump unfit.

After crying wolf so many times in the past, however, liberals had no credibility when they used hyperbole to attack Trump. Indeed, these attacks seemed more likely to convince Republicans that Trump actually was one of them, a conservative who scared liberals because he would stand up for their values.

In the primary, conservative arguments against him fell on deaf ears, because liberals were so scared. Only a true conservative warrior could achieve that, and so many who might have been skeptical otherwise jumped on the Trump train.

As a conservative who firmly got on the Romney bandwagon in 2012, I found myself unable to trust Trump. Yes, he is better than Hillary Clinton would have been, but will a man whose political principles seem to change with the wind prove to be a conservative warrior in the White House? I can only hope so. But liberals can take the credit for convincing my fellow Republicans he was the savior they were looking for.

3. Planting operatives to cause chaos.

Last month, Project Veritas released a bombshell video about the violence at Trump rallies. The Clinton campaign and Democratic Party operatives planned to incite that violence, and it backfired.

The Democrats intended that violence to dissuade Trump supporters and convince most Americans that there was something very wrong with him. Instead, it merely convinced millions of Americans that Trump stands for something, in spite of strong opposition. Just as liberal attacks that Trump is a "fascist" convinced Republicans that he was their champion, so the violence at his rallies convinced Americans he was a real political force.

Once again, the Democrat attack backfired, and liberals themselves are responsible for Trump's political success.

4. Allowing the media to prostrate themselves.

In the Republican primary, Donald Trump received over $1.9 billion in media coverage. In any primary, a key feature is name recognition — voters won't choose a candidate they've never heard of. Trump consistently led in this category, and the media coverage only helped his lead over other Republicans.

FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver analyzed three kinds of news stories: reports of Trump's high poll numbers, tales of Trump beating the Republican "establishment," and astonished reports of Trump saying unbelievable things.

Reports of Trump's inflammatory comments were presented as likely damning his candidacy, yet each poll showed Trump ahead of other candidates. These astonished poll reports left Republicans with the impression that he had beaten the "establishment," and that "telling it like it is" made him an electable candidate. Many of these polling reports emphasized that people viewed Trump as "electable," but did not focus on his negative favorable ratings.

The media coverage — not necessarily intended to prop up Trump, and even occasionally intended to destroy his candidacy — actually had the result of creating a hero in the minds of Republicans who distrusted the media and the "establishment." $1.9 billion can make a sensation out of anyone, and Trump was already a household name.

Just like liberals crying wolf, the breathless media coverage of Trump convinced many Republicans that he was a heroic underdog, consistently winning despite everything thrown against him.

Why did the media cover Trump so much? One word: ratings. The media chases its audience, and Trump attracted attention. Higher ratings and Internet traffic enables outlets to charge more for advertising, and so it was in their interest to cover stories which attract attention.

TV news even went so far as to stream Trump's speeches and rallies live — an unprecedented move which gave both Trump and news outlets more attention. It was a win-win, and while many feared they were "selling their souls" for ratings, they were also delivering people the stories which interested them most.

There are many, many reasons Trump defeated Clinton on Tuesday, and books will undoubtedly cover them in detail. But liberals and Democrats have themselves to blame for many of them.

Further protesting and rioting is likely to only make Trump stronger, and if he proves to be even a partially decent president, liberals will have to eat so much crow, Trump will likely become a true misunderstood American hero. But it's not like liberals were silenced — they made him, and now they have to live with him.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Now nutsucker, your circlefelch is forming, you are the lead tongue today.

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ORIGINAL: Nnanji

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Now nutsucker, your circlefelch is forming, you are the lead tongue today.

Which voice in your head was that from mental patient? I didn't see anyone here to observe any so called circlefelch so I'm guessing it's one of the voices that's lies to you a lot.

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The Democrats already know the cause of their utter electoral humiliation: all those flyover people who had voted for Obama last time were actually racists who demonstrated their racism by not voting for the tired old white lady too.

Far be it for me to help out you terrible Democrat clowns by suggesting that your terrible party has a terrible problem and you might want to figure out how to fix it. Sure, Hillary did get a lot of votes. Maybe even a majority of votes. And, considering we are not a democracy but a constitutional republic, of equal relevance is the fact that I own a hat.

You lost. And it’s because you suck.

Now, you and rest of the unshaven she-beasts and spindly femboys could take this opportunity for reflection and introspection following the election instead of retreating to your campus safe spaces for vegan cookies and awkward hugs. You could try to figure out where you went wrong losing so many voters who you used to have sewn up. The idea is to figure out how you might be able to prevent similar results in the future. Some call it a “post-event analysis.” In the Army – for the goatee n’ scarf gang, that’s the one that fights on the ground – we call it an “after action review.” Coroners call it an “autopsy.”

And you’ll never, ever do it. Why? Because you are liberals and you already have your answers.

Everyone is racist.

Everyone is sexist.

Everyone is stupid.

Everyone but you, that is. You, the ones the racist, sexist, stupid people beat like a NFL player’s wife.

And speaking of the NFL, have you noticed how its own autopsy of its own dying ratings also seems to have a predetermined outcome, one that studiously avoids any unwelcome conclusions?

Oh, it’s too many ads.

Oh, it’s too many penalties.

Oh, it’s the election.

Anything missing? Anything significant to, say, the kind of people who used to like football? I dunno, maybe the NFL’s coddling of spoiled jerks who disrespect the flag?

Nah. I mean, what kind of uneducated, racist moron would object to some gratuitous flag hating?

Hmmm. Maybe the kind of people who aren’t watching the NFL anymore.

And maybe this might provide an insight for the Democrat Party. Maybe the answer might not be what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Maybe some of those missing voters think there are more important things to do than ensuring our tax money gets spent dismembering babies, making heroes out of thugs who got themselves shot, or trying to ensure that grown men can pee freely among little girls.

Nah. If Americans outside the big blue cities don’t care about the social obsessions of aging hippies, indoctrinated millennials, and frigid feminists, then they’re wrong. You can probably fix everything by redoubling your efforts to show them how horrible they are.

Call them “racist” even louder.

Call them “sexist” even more shrilly.

Call in Lena Dunham and have her waddle out to rural Pennsylvania to explain why white men need to be exterminated. I’m sure that’ll win back those Trump-voting guys and gals. And when they start muttering “There’s not enough Rolling Rock in Pittsburgh,” it means they think she’s hot.

Plus, don’t forget to pay more unemployed deadbeats to march around waving Mexican flags and burning American ones. Normal people love that. The whole “#NotMyPresident”/”I hate the Electoral College yet still I saw Hamilton twice” thing is helpful too. Nothing like telling the rest of America “Heads we win/tails you lose.”

But, of course, why pretend to respect their opinions when you don’t respect their opinions. They like guns and America and Jesus, and frankly those things are, at best, embarrassing if not downright horrible. I mean, #Science, right?

Yeah, I played the #Science card. Case closed. Who needs to even talk to the idiots who are clearly too stupid to understand that their role is to rubberstamp the political manifestations of liberal fads and urban mysticism. I mean, some of those people work in fracking and just don’t understand that despite the ever-growing series of “This is it, we’re doomed, we really, really mean it this time” milestones falling back in society’s collective rear-view mirror, the weather obsessions of blue city neurotics are much, much more important than them feeding their families.

Because, of course, #Science.

No, you can’t identify and fix your cheesy party’s problems because your ridiculous ideology already compels your conclusions. Why bother assembling and analyzing the facts when you know what the answer will be, what it must be: racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and whatever other faux-phobias that come slinking out of academia to give you an excuse to hector and nag normal people.

When your whole party is based on virtue signaling, you don’t have a lot of options except more virtue signaling. So you’ll stick safety pins in your $600 sweaters, retweet your powerful hashtags, and unfriend anyone who doesn’t think exactly like all you nonconformist rebels. The more adventurous among you liberal bravehearts will courageously call for a California secession – well, my new novel previews how things will go for you without having any of those normal people you look down upon around to keep you fed and fueled and safe. Let’s just say it would go poorly.

And when you come back to report that the corpse of your party is alive and well and that rumors of the Democrat Party’s death have been greatly exaggerated, I’m going to smile, because you have 25 Senate seats up in 2018, many in red states, and the GOP needs just eight for a filibuster-proof majority. Go ahead, double down on what got you to this point, the point where I can drive from sea to shining sea without touching a patch of blue. You’re doin’ swell!

So enjoy your party’s fake autopsy – I know I will.

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...So fuck the white working class. We liberals have no outreach to do there that has any political import....Wasting time on the white working class trying to win their votes, in the end, as about as useful as outreach to Amazon jungle tribesmen. They’re both a bunch of primitive dipshits who aren’t gonna vote for us regardless, so. Offer them help because it’s the right thing to do, but obsessing about getting the votes of these primitive inbreds is about as useful as a bicycle for fish.

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It appears that the Stormtrumpers are upset that the CEO of Grubhub sent out a sternly worded memo that the values of Donald Trump — hate, bigotry, xenophobia, and racism — are not the values of Grubhub, and that employees who have those values should resign. The Stormtrumpers have been dusting off their brown shirts and boldly stating that they’re going to boycott, BOYCOTT I say, Grubhub for their CEO’s audacity to disagree with their holy Savior’s message of hate, bigotry, xenophobia, and racism!

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One thing that a lot of liberals don’t understand is “How could people in rural areas have such wrong ideas about Trump and Clinton?” I lived in a rural area for some years. One thing that rural areas lack is access to information. Internet access is slow or non-existent. There might be a weekly newspaper published in the county seat, but it is mostly advertisements for people’s services. If I want to know who to call to dig new field lines for my septic tank, I’ll get that out of the weekly newspaper (plus by talking to my neighbors, of course, which is how I actually found the guy to dig my field lines). But real news about what’s happening in the world? Nope...The question is how to remedy that, given the limited sources of information in rural areas — and worse yet, the lack of desire on the part of people in rural areas to learn about the outside world, given that they already think they know what everything outside their insular bubble is like.

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Basically, the deal is the Supreme Court. Most of the Democratic-appointed members of the Supreme Court are on their last legs, and the Republican-appointed members have shown that they are against civil rights for blacks, gays, women, or really, anybody who isn’t a rich white male American. The Democratic members are going to be replaced with more along the stamp of the current Republican-appointed members and is going to be ultra-right-wing for the next thirty years, at least. This court has already signalled that it doesn’t support the right for people of color to vote, basically what we’re going to see is a return to poll taxes and the Black Codes that basically make all people of color felons and disenfranchises them.

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My congratulations to Vladimir Putin and James Comey for organizing the first-ever intelligence agency coup in American history. Let us just pray it is a bloodless one. But I doubt it will be, because the long knives generally come out after a coup as the winners of the coup exterminate anybody who they fear may overturn their coup. I expect that we will continue to see a “President” chosen by the intelligence agencies for the near future, however long that may be