It’s giving “oof.”
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In 2016, when Donald Trump was elected, it felt just like the elements of the nation that didn’t vote for him let loose a pained wail for months, even years, afterward. This time round, it’s extra of a pained silence. Or, not less than, that what you’d suppose from watching at this time’s episode of The View. Well-known for being a web site of political competition (ahem, Rosie O’Donnell versus Elisabeth Hasselbeck), the present at this time noticed the 5 hosts, who all oppose Trump, as an alternative sorrowfully eulogizing democracy. Even the usually irascible Pleasure Behar was comparatively tame whereas expressing her dissatisfaction. “My takeaway is that the system labored,” she mentioned on the present. “We dwell in a democracy. Folks spoke. That is what folks needed. I vehemently disagree with the choice People made, however I really feel very, very hopeful that we’ve a democratic system on this nation.”
Whoopi Goldberg adopted swimsuit, expressing the worth of voting, then pivoting to saluting Vice-President Kamala Harris for what she did do. “She did this in two months,” Goldberg mentioned firmly. “Folks didn’t come out, I don’t know why, and it doesn’t even matter. He’s now the president.” Former Trump staffer and present Trump critic Alyssa Farah Griffin additionally targeted on the large help for the Republican candidate, saying “tens of thousands and thousands of People, our associates, our neighbors, our relations, voted for Donald Trump.” “We disagree with them, I do know all of us do at this desk, however they’re good, respectable folks,” she asserted. Even famously passionate Ana Navarro appeared deflated. “I hope for the perfect for our nation, and I make a dedication to our LGBTQ, to our immigrants, to our aged, to our younger ladies, to the ladies, that we are going to not cease combating,” she mentioned. Solely Sunny Hostin appeared her regular self, maintaining her composure and her wits about her. “I keep in mind my father telling me, many a few years in the past, that I used to be the primary particular person in his household to take pleasure in full civil rights,” she mentioned. “And now I’ve much less civil rights than I had when he instructed me that.”
Examine this to their protection after the 2016 election, when the ladies had been bouncing off one another and appeared genuinely, earnestly fearsome. “Not solely does he now threaten how issues are going to be completed with children of colour, with girls’s rights, with my proper to determine what is true for my physique,” Goldberg intoned then, “however my pal’s kids are afraid.” The View, as it’s so good at doing, captured the nation’s temper as soon as once more: melancholy. It’s going to be an extended 4 years.
