I did something I rarely do: I watched CNN and MSNBC this Wednesday morning, to see the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth among the credentialed media and their Usual Suspect panelists. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough blamed misogyny among black and Hispanic men, and the Reverend Al Sharpton — if you can remember how Rush Limbaugh used to mock the pronunciation of his name, go for it! — blamed white voters for not going where logic should have taken them. We had CNN panelists crying about how they’d explain this to their daughters.

In a way, what they were bemoaning tells us exactly who won the election. This election was won by normal people! It was won by people who might have some sympathy for the transgendered and homosexuals, but not the silliness which the far left have used to insist that males who think they’re women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports, nor the groomers’ efforts to push transgenderism and homosexuality as normal and acceptable in schools. They’re the people who hear the Democrats telling us how great the economy is, while having to pay their inflated grocery bills and the price of gasoline to fill their fuel tanks. They’re the people who might not like Russia and Vladimir Putin, but who still don’t want to see their tax dollars, and eventually their children, to fight Russia in Ukraine. They’re the people who like their Hispanic neighbors, but don’t like seeing waves of unregulated illegal immigration with its influx of criminals and the tremendous monetary and housing burdens being put on their communities to house and feed them. They’re the people who might have some sympathy for the ‘Palestinians,’ but don’t like the outrageous anti-Semitism of the pro-Hamas protesters, and who recognize that it was Hamas that started that war. They’re the people who might have some concern — though it’s not the main issue for more than a small percentage — about global warming climate change, but recognize that plug-in electric vehicles are impractical for their lives, and don’t want the government telling them how they can run their lives. They’re the people who might think keeping a pet squirrel or raccoon is silly, but were appalled that the state, a state run by Democrats, broke into someone’s home to seize and then slaughter ‘Peanut’ the squirrel. They’re the people who reject the normalization and excusing of crime.

We have been told, ad infinitum, by the left that if Donald Trump won, this could be our last election. Mr Trump will be in his final term under the Constitution, and is 78 years old; in four more years, he will be 82. Even if he wants to run again in 2028, he’s legally barred from doing so, and who could really run at that age? That’s where the Democrats failed: their claim that there’d be no future elections if Mr Trump won was an unbelievable one.

We were told, by the Democrats, that Mr Trump was ‘literally Hitler,’ something really overworn since the younger George Bush was also ‘literally Hitler,’ but he had already served four years in office, and regardless of his bombastic nature, he wasn’t Hitler and didn’t exceed what he could legally do. We were told, by the left, that the three-hour, unarmed protest on January 6^th was the worst attack ever on our democracy, yet we had an actual Civil War between 1861 and 1865, making what amounted to a fraternity keg party spilling out of control seem silly. We were told that Mr Trump would throw all of his opponents in jail, yet it was the Democrats who actually prosecuted the Capitol kerfufflers and threw many in jail. We were told that Mr Trump was an evil, authoritarian fascist, yet it was the Democrats who were advocating restrictions on our Freedom of Speech, and crying that Elon Musk and Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — needed to be restrained for letting people sey what they wanted in public. We were told that Mr Trump really hates Jews, yet not only was he the best friend of Israel during his first term, but it was the left who were holding sit-ins, trespassing encampments, and anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas marches in our cities. We had the Usual Suspects telling us that they’d leave the United States if Mr Trump won, but they said the same things in 2016, and almost none of them did.

Basically, the left were lying to us all, and the credentialed media were promoting their lies.