We Now Have The Worst Excuse For Kamala’s Crushing Loss

It’s official: we now have perhaps the worst excuse from liberal media for Vice President Kamala Harris’s resounding defeat to Donald Trump.

Since the election, Democratic Party operatives, liberal intellectuals and cable news hosts have served up a slew of excuses for the November disaster, everything from hate-fueled racism to plain old sexism. But Salon writer Amanda Marcotte has the worst excuse of them all: Kamala got shellacked because of Q-Anon-adjacent conspiracy theories. (Stream The Daily Caller’s Latest Documentary ‘Cleaning Up Kamala’ HERE)

Marcotte writes that Americans who voted for Trump are addicted to conspiracy theories on social media, whereas the average Harris voter is someone who lives grounded in reality, consuming their news from establishment media outlets. Naturally, Americans who like to flirt with fringe theories like Q-Anon will go all in for the candidate who — allegedly — is the king of spreading lies and that dirty word, “disinformation.”

“What quickly becomes evident about the median voters in an American focus group is how profoundly opposed they are to even the most basic factual information,” Marcotte claims. “On the contrary, it’s a community with a pathological aversion to reality, where people compulsively react to anything truth-shaped with hostility, running as hard as they can toward disinformation. They are addicted to BS. Of course they voted for Trump, the country’s most reliable dealer of their favorite drug.”

Never mind that the Biden-Harris administration has been a slow-moving disaster since 2021. Never mind the inflation, the porous border, the foreign wars sucking up American tax dollars. Never mind the lunatic ideas embraced by the Democratic Party elites, such as sex changes for kids and sanctuary cities. Never mind the simple fact that Harris was one of the worst presidential candidates in modern political history, a witless clod who could barely handle a sit-down interview, who could barely handle a softball question without bursting out into a cackling fit. Never mind that her running mate, Tim Walz, was a Marxist Mr. Magoo who spent the final days of the campaign desperately, shamelessly pandering to the young men his party has alienated for years. (RELATED: Democrats Bud Lighted Their Entire Brand, And It’s Too Late To Save It)

No, none of that matters! None of that explains her loss in the slightest. It’s all marginal. The real reason is that too many Americans are spending too much time on social media and spreading dangerous memes that undermine the regime’s propaganda.

Unlike Marcotte, one Kamala Harris staffer, deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty, had enough self-awareness to understand that her loss had far more to do with the party’s utter disconnect with regular Americans than those voters’ predilection for online memes and raw milk.

“For the left, our amplification ecosystem is the mainstream media and Hollywood, and the mainstream media and Hollywood don’t really mess with us — they’re not actually allies. And they’re not where these voters who don’t want to pay attention to politics are. We are sitting here at Harvard at a big event with mainstream media. Voters out there that we actually needed to reach are not seeing this at all, and they’re not seeing mainstream media at all,” Flaherty said at a Harvard politics event Dec. 6.

“I think, fundamentally, we have a mismatch between the amplification engine of the left and the media of this moment, which is increasingly alternative, anti-establishment … that presents a real issue for us, the party of institutions, at a time when people really hate institutions,” he went on to say.

Spot on.

Although there might be a kernel of truth to the fact that Americans like conspiracy theories, it certainly was not a major factor, the factor, in this election. Marcotte also fails to see the very same dynamic on the left, that they are trapped within their own propaganda ecosystem, ensnared by their own delusions, the most damaging of which was the notion that Harris was actually a good candidate who could appeal to regular voters.