The left is having a very hard time accommodating the reality of a conservative electoral sweep and a national tilt to the right. To put it in mental health diagnostic terms that leftists would understand, they appear to have an “adjustment disorder”; that is, they’re having great difficulty adjusting to a new political world.
It’s been decades since being a newsman or reporter was a working class job, and it shows. Today’s TV “personalities” are as removed from the concerns of the average American as it is possible to be. More than half the country voted for Donald Trump, and the majority is aligned with several of Trump’s policies on expelling illegal aliens and having the government recognize the reality that there are only two sexes.
You’d never know it to watch mainstream news coverage on NBC, CNN, NPR, or in the pages of the New York Times and the like. The writers and on-camera personalities are not only at odds with majority American opinion, they don’t even seem to be aware that they are. Take someone like CBS anchor Margaret Brennan, who has repeatedly disgraced herself with her hostile, mean-girl demeanor and scoffing at Donald Trump and JD Vance. Her latest move was to react to Vance’s address to a meeting of European leaders—Vance took them to task for surveilling and punishing the speech of their own citizens—by claiming that “free speech” allowed the Nazis to perpetrate the Holocaust.
Or, take CNN’s Brianna Keilar, who seems to be personally offended on behalf of the numerous federal staffers that Trump has fired as duplicative, incompetent, or obstructive to his agenda. Like most on the left, Keilar seems to be unclear on the fact that a boss has the right to hire and fire subordinates. She seems to want to suggest that Elon Musk, Trump’s pick to head the Department of Government Effiency (DOGE), is somehow out of control, or acting in a way he’s. . .not supposed to?
Her guest, Stephen Miller takes the nonsense right apart on the air. As if he were instructing a schoolchild taking her first civics lesson, Miller calmly explains, “The way that Article II (of the Constitution) works is that a president wins an election, and then he appoints staff . . .and those staff report to him.”
Undeterred, Keilar keeps going, asking, “Does Elon Musk know he’s not in charge of DOGE?” It’s the kind of disingenuous fakery the Democrats resort to constantly now as they refuse to engage on substance. Miller comes right back: “Again, the president runs the government, and the president appoints advisors. . .and then those staff in turn execute the president’s commands and directions to all the agencies of the federal government.”
Take a look at the video highlighted by Collin Rugg to watch Keilar try to tamp down her frustration as Miller placidly smiles.
Keilar is staring daggers at Miller as he says, “This is how democracy works, something that we treasure in America.”
X/Twitter users picked up on what was going on:
Graeme was delighted with the primary-school lesson delivery:
Alan noted how strange it was for a national news anchor to seem “confused” about the president’s ability to fire federal staff.
