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\"The_Cubs_celebrate_after_winning_the_2016_World_Series._(30709972906)\"<\/a>The Chicago Cubs didn\u2019t really win the World Series over the Cleveland Indians. \u00a0Actually, both teams scored 27 points. \u00a0So the series was really a tie.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the same kind of reasoning that insists\u00a0Donald Trump didn\u2019t really win the election because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. \u00a0So says Mollie Hemingway in a column about how liberals can learn from conservatives in accepting disappointing outcomes.<\/p>\n

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From Mollie Hemingway,\u00a0<\/span>10 Things The Right Can Teach The Left About Accepting The Reality Of Trump<\/a>, The Federalist:<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been nearly two months since Donald Trump won the 2016 election for president of the United States but somehow that\u2019s 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\u2019t already know that, it\u2019s probably just because you don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

But as the media overwhelmingly tend to the political left and chose not obscure their bias so much this round, we\u2019ve 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<\/a>, the protests<\/a>, the riots<\/a>, the subway art installations<\/a>, the artist boycotts<\/a>, the recount efforts<\/a>, the organized and funded push to have the Electoral College<\/a> do \u2026 something, the media-fed conspiracy theories about Russian vote hacking<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

Folks on the Right, regardless of how they feel about Trump, have been enjoying this meltdown. It\u2019s funny! The hubris leading up the election<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

[Keep reading. . .]\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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HT: \u00a0Jackie<\/p>\n

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Photo by Arturo Pardavila III from Hoboken, NJ, USA [CC BY 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Cubs didn\u2019t really win the World Series over the Cleveland Indians. \u00a0Actually, both teams scored 27 points. \u00a0So the series was really a tie. 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