The Cubs didn’t really win the World Series

The Cubs didn’t really win the World Series January 5, 2017

The_Cubs_celebrate_after_winning_the_2016_World_Series._(30709972906)The Chicago Cubs didn’t really win the World Series over the Cleveland Indians.  Actually, both teams scored 27 points.  So the series was really a tie.

That’s the same kind of reasoning that insists Donald Trump didn’t really win the election because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.  So says Mollie Hemingway in a column about how liberals can learn from conservatives in accepting disappointing outcomes.

From Mollie Hemingway, 10 Things The Right Can Teach The Left About Accepting The Reality Of Trump, The Federalist:

It’s been nearly two months since Donald Trump won the 2016 election for president of the United States but somehow that’s not been enough time for the reality to sink in for many political liberals. Yes, presidential elections have been emotional for some time. I can vouch for how sad if not depressed many conservatives were when Mitt Romney lost his bid to unseat President Obama in 2012. If you didn’t already know that, it’s probably just because you don’t know many conservatives. The media never for a moment considered how heartbreaking that loss was for many Americans worried about the direction of the country.

But as the media overwhelmingly tend to the political left and chose not obscure their bias so much this round, we’ve been given daily examples of the difficulty folks on that side of the political divide are having with the reality of Donald Trump. The crying, the protests, the riots, the subway art installations, the artist boycotts, the recount efforts, the organized and funded push to have the Electoral College do … something, the media-fed conspiracy theories about Russian vote hacking. Pundits on TV shake their head at everything Trump says and does, and journalists on Twitter react like rabid Pavlovian dogs to every utterance the president-elect makes.

Folks on the Right, regardless of how they feel about Trump, have been enjoying this meltdown. It’s funny! The hubris leading up the election only makes it more so! The more kindhearted keep encouraging the rest of us not to take so much delight in the tremendous difficulty the Left is having. And we all keep wondering just how long the Left is going to have this break with reality, this refusal to come to terms with life as it is.

[Keep reading. . .] 

 

HT:  Jackie

 

Photo by Arturo Pardavila III from Hoboken, NJ, USA [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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