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The unbearable smugness of the press

The audience for our glib analysis and contempt for much of the electorate, it turned out, was rather limited. This was particularly true when it came to voters, the ones who turned out by the millions to deliver not only a rebuke to the political system but also the people who cover it. Trump knew what he was doing when he invited his crowds to jeer and hiss the reporters covering him. They hate us, and have for some time.

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Trump’s US election: Writing was clearly on the wall for all readers here to see — Caroline Overington, The Australian

It’s sortakinda like pulling out in your family sedan ainto the path of a monster B triple and saying “..Gee, I didn’t see that coming..”

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that get what’s going on and those that don’t.

This result was blindingly obvious except to those who couldn’t see past Trumps straight talk (which people say they want in a politician) and his character flaws but at the same time were quite prepared to be blinded by the Clinton crimes, character flaws, duplicity and double speak. (telling a Wall Street function that she had a public position and a private position on issues.) To them it was a simple and shallow, blue team vs red team political theatre fixture.

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