by Matt Margolis, PJ Media:
For decades now, it has been a staple of the left’s critique of patriots that both they and their leaders are stupid. First, it was Ronald Reagan, the failed actor, a man who was given lines to read. Then there was George W. Bush, aka “Chimpy McHalliburton.” And now there is Donald Trump, the dull-witted billionaire.
It has become a reflex for leftists to characterize every Republican president, as well as every Republican presidential candidate, as an intellectual lightweight or worse who owed his electoral success to crafty and cynical handlers who didn’t believe in the message they were putting in the mouth of their front man.
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Now, however, possibly for the first time ever, a leading leftist spokesman has admitted that the patriotic candidate who beat them may actually be smarter than leftists have given him credit for being.
This unlikeliest of events happened on Friday when the hard-left former CNN propagandist Chris Cillizza was lamenting the improbable victory of the man whom he and his colleagues had been ridiculing for years for being stupid, demented, inept, and evil. Cillizza was baffled that Bad Orange Man, the Emmanuel Goldstein of his nightmares, actually turned out to have had a thought and even worse, that his thought had turned out to be correct.
Van Jones calls out liberal media figures for habitually saying that Trump is stupid, and notes that mainstream media figures are the ones that end up ‘looking like idiots’:
Chris Cillizza: “How the hell did Donald Trump figure out that the mainstream media is the fringe and the… pic.twitter.com/Ni7FQAacsY— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) December 13, 2024
“How the hell,” Cillizza fumed in a conversation with Van Jones, “did Donald Trump figure out the mainstream media is the fringe and the fringe is now the mainstream? How the hell did Donald Trump figure out — I mean, Joe Rogan is obvious, right? Like, we knew the guy had a big audience. It’s not like we were, like, stunned. But, like, how the hell was he, the 78-year-old guy who doesn’t even have a computer, and still, like, writes handwritten notes, how did he become the guy who cracked the code on — to your point — running a cultural, I don’t even wanna say campaign? Running a —”
Jones broke in with, “It’s a — it’s a movement. Look —” as Cillizza continued with “A movement, heading a cultural movement versus a campaign.”
As he battled with Cillizza for the floor, Jones said: “Look. Ev— Everybody — Every one of your people knows, Elon Elon Elon Elon.” But it wasn’t just Elon Musk. Jones continued, “Listen. So, so, everybody keeps, I mean, the problem is, you have a framework in your mind that,” and he mimicked Cillizza’s high-pitched whine, “‘How could Donald Trump? How could Donald Trump? How could Donald Trump?’ Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Donald Trump — let me just be very clear. — Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all his critics. You know how we know? Because he has the White House, the Senate, the House
