Progressive media personality Cenk Uyghur expressed optimism following President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election, saying his opponents are the “defeated” and “establishment”.
“I'm trying to understand why I'm more optimistic now than before the election, even though I was so opposed to whoever won,” Uighur wrote in an article Friday. post On Social Platform X. “I understand now.”
He referenced President Trump's campaign motto, “Mage America Great Again,” and continued, “MAGA is not my mortal enemy (nor is it the far left).” “My mortal enemy is the establishment, and they have been defeated!”
The “Young Turks” host added, “Not only did the establishment candidate lose, but the media was fatally wounded.”
“Their source of power was not dry politicians like Mitch McConnell or Joe Biden. Their source of power was the propaganda machine: the mainstream media,” he wrote.
Uyghurs said they do not agree with “.''majority” President Trump has publicly criticized Democrats on a number of issues since last year, including what he perceived as a delay in asking President Biden to decline his re-election bid.
“[Biden] I’m not going to win,” Uyghur said when he announced his candidacy for the primary last October, nearly a year before Democrats pressured Biden to withdraw following a disastrous debate with President Trump. Ta. “It should have been someone else, not me, but unfortunately it wasn't anyone else.”
The former 2024 presidential candidate, who abandoned a long-shot bid in early March, also blamed Colorado and Maine's decisions to block Trump from appearing on state ballots earlier this year. are discussing “We should support democracy.”
Recently he proposed his approval President Trump's pick for Secretary of Labor, Rep. Lori Chavez Delemer (R-Ore.), has the support of Teamsters President Sean O'Brien and strong support from labor unions.
“The online media are now powerful enough that their oppressive monopoly on the American psyche has been broken,” he wrote in Friday's X. They hate it! I love it! “
“This uncontrolled marketplace of ideas is my home. I would rather be in the forest of populism than in the prison of the regime,” the Uyghur added.
