Andrew Bolt: Donald Trump US election win a revolt against Left’s arrogance
THE US election has shown just how sick ordinary people are with the political elite, especially the bullies of the Left, writes Andrew Bolt
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DONALD Trump’s win is the biggest “f--- you” to all his enemies — the media, the politicians and Wall Street. The whole world now — and our own political class — has been given a shock and a warning.
Stop bullying and patronising the silent majority or they will rise in terrible revolt.
The British vote to leave Europe showed the public would no longer be chained. Trump’s victory confirms it.
Even I could not see Trump winning. I could not believe so many voters were so cowed by the violence and the abuse of the Left that the polls, misled by their silence, had Hillary Clinton winning by an average of 46.8 per cent to Trump’s 43.6.
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But in the ballot box those voters cut loose and chose as their next president a man with zero political experience and vilified in the media as a sexist, racist, neo-Nazi hothead likely to drop the nuclear bomb.
Maybe he is some of that, but how much did voters loathe the Washington crowd that they’d still rather have Trump, who on the day before the election led crowds in another chant of “Drain the swamp”?
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There will be many sanctimonious commentators who will howl that this proves every second American is a cretin.
Clinton herself in a disastrous moment fell for this self-congratulatory fantasy, indulging in exactly the kind of abuse that makes the Left so contemptible to so many voters now, in the US and here.
“You can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” she told a gay and lesbian rally for her in September.
“Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.”
Sure, Clinton apologised. But just to remind voters how little she understood them, she spent election eve campaigning with multi-millionaire celebrities Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi.
Listen to your betters, little people.
Yes, your betters — like Clinton herself, whose Clinton Foundation actually looked like a corrupt pay-to-play and whose unlawful use of a private email server while secretary of state saw her escape the kind of prosecution that some lowly clerk would surely have faced.
This pulling of rank no longer works.
Not with the poor who see these new moralists leading five-star lives in first class.
Not with workers who see the Left establishment destroy their manufacturing plants and — yes — power stations in the name of their global warming faith.
Not with people who find themselves abused as racists for protesting against the Left’s new craze to divide us into tribes.
Not with the poor who see their jobs taken and their streets made violent by the mass immigration from the Third World that the Left hails as a sign of its broad-mindedness.
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Not with people who now fear the Islamist terrorism imported by a political class too eager to seem tolerant to call out Islam or slam the door.
It was actually far-Left filmmaker Michael Moore who predicted this “biggest f--- you in human history”. He said the working class and the dispossessed — the ones the Left lord it over — would take their vengeance in the privacy of the polling both.
They would vote for the enemy of their enemies — the whole Washington class and the media that shines its shoes and protects its privileges.
Trump spotted this disconnect between the political elite and the public way back. In 1988 the billionaire casino owner told Oprah Winfrey he might run for president.
“If it got so bad, I would never want to rule it out totally, because I really am tired of seeing what’s happening with this country.
“We’re really making other people live like kings and we’re not.”
But the elites didn’t take the tip.
They made trade deals that too many people thought — however falsely — left them worse off.
Trump, instead, said he’d negotiate much better deals and tear up the Trans-Pacific Partnership that includes Australia, too.
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The elites also left the door open to illegal immigrants and too many legal immigrants too.
Trump, instead, said he’d build a wall to stop the flood of illegal immigrants pouring over the Mexican border and deport many of the 11 million illegals already in the US.
The elites pandered to Muslim “leaders” and multiculturalists and sold Islam as a religion of peace.
Trump, instead, said he’d temporarily freeze Muslim immigration and stop taking refugees from Syria.
The elites vilified those who protested, threatening them with the law.
Trump showed just how little he cared, speaking as brutally as he liked.
Any of this apply to Australia?
The revolution is on. Watch Washington fall.
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