Andrew Yang: The Media Failed To Understand Trump’s Victory

Editor’s Note: This will also be another long day on this blog. I have to explain a lot of things to people who don’t understand anything.

Andrew Yang is accusing the mainstream media of failing to understand why Donald Trump won the 2016 election:

“Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang criticized the media Monday for its coverage of President Trump, saying that it has failed to explain his appeal.

“I would say I think our media has done us a disservice by overly simplifying why Donald Trump is our president today,” Yang said at a rally in Chicago.

Yang said that the media was wrong to blame Trump’s election on racism, Russia, ignorance, immigration, Facebook, or the FBI, among other narratives.

“The reason Donald Trump is our president today is we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs,” he said.

Yang, whose upstart campaign has recently gained media attention, has called for a new agency to monitor “fake news.”

“‘Fake news’ is a rampant problem,” says Yang on his campaign website. “The rewards for publishing inflammatory content are high with no real penalty. At the extreme end, those who wish to misinform the American public can do so with little fear of repercussions.” …”

Imagine for a moment that the same leftwing journos who were absolutely certain that Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump in 2016, who got the “alt-right” wrong and who also spent the last two years poisoning our foreign relations by peddling the Russia conspiracy nonsense on CNN and MSNBC actually know very little about Middle America and what makes it tick.

There is a lot to breakdown here.

After watching the humiliation of the mainstream media over the Russia conspiracy nonsense, I kind of feel obligated to start explaining ourselves to them for a change.