During the 2020 election campaign, journalists who bothered to venture any further out on the campaign trail than browsing their Twitter feed or adding to the single figures watching a Joe Biden Zoom snoozeroo were shocked – shocked! – to discover just how much the plebs in flyover country backed Trump.
They’re even more shocked to find that he’s even more popular in spite of the left-elite’s incessant shrieking about “insurrection”.
Former President Donald Trump has actually gained – not lost –political clout since leaving office, a political observer asserted Friday.
It’s a devastating wake-up call for a journalist, stepping outside their self-important little bubble. In Wyoming, Tara Palmeri seemed as clueless as a British tourist shouting, “You-ee speak-ee English?” at a crowd of Amazonian tribesmen.
“People don’t want to hear anything against Trump,” Palmeri said during an appearance on MSNBC. “Actually, the more he stays out of the media, the more that he becomes this martyr, this looming figure over the GOP.”
In fact, there is now a “crusade” being waged on behalf of the former president in places like Wyoming, where Trump is “way more popular” than the state’s high-ranking congressional Republican, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, Palmeri said.
And here’s where the RINO establishment ought to be trembling in their Gucci loafers.
“I actually went out of my way to try to find someone who would defend [Cheney] and I really could not,” Palmeri told MSNBC. “She didn’t have that much name recognition, considering she’s a Cheney. … I mean, I said her name at a hardware store, and someone shouted a threat.”
The “overwhelming” consensus that Palmeri heard from voters was that Cheney’s vote for impeachment was “not a vote for Wyoming” and “therefore she has to go.”
To the Beltway insider, Deplorable-Land really is a foreign country.
She then described an apparent disconnect between what’s perceived as truth in D.C. and what’s perceived as truth in Cheyenne. Palmeri mentioned locals not wearing masks, expressing distrust of the coronavirus vaccine, claiming both that the number of reported deaths from the pandemic were “inflated,” believing the 2020 presidential election wasn’t legitimate, and that the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill was “staged” by Antifa.
“I hate that they’re so distrustful,” Palmeri said.
Maybe you might try a little self-reflection, dearie? Not just you, but the whole establishment, which spent five years lying through their teeth and screaming, “Orange Man Bad!” Now you’re surprised that people just don’t believe anything you say, any more?
“It feels like another world but that’s what’s on the ground and I don’t think that we can ignore it and I’m really happy that I went out there and saw it because I think that there’s a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country.”
In Wyoming, she added, “A lot of people said they aren’t really Republicans, that, like, they’re for Trump. That’s it … I think the base is getting stronger, truly. I think an impeachment would make him even more powerful — a conviction, is what I mean.”
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And that’s what the entire Swamp is terrified of.
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