University campuses such as Georgetown, Oregon, Virginia Tech, University of Chicago, and Syracuse are offering stunned students access to therapy dogs, a therapy duck, milk and cookies, and coloring books and Legos, according to a College Fix article.
A similar article, by Campus Reform, said a Michigan State professor cancelled classes to “grieve” Trump’s election. The professor, who described herself as a “queer, immigrant woman of color,” wrote she could not continue as if everything is fine.
Matt Lamb, associate editor of the Fix, says universities and colleges everywhere were preparing students for a “meltdown” if Trump defeated Kamala Harris.
“At George Washington University, they were locking down the campus for fears of violence,” he tells AFN. “Now, D.C. is 92% Democrat, so I don't think they were really worried about Republicans committing violence, let’s just say.”
Comedians cry over end of nation
On the late-night comedy shows, where the one-liners only mock one political party, the shock of Trump’s win had shaken up the show’s writers.
“Let’s be honest: it was a terrible night last night,” talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, holding back tears, said of the election. “It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants who make this country go.”
In his monologue, Stephone Colbert (pictured at left) said he was grateful for the show's staff, and for the audience, because people don't need to be alone in times like this.
"In this democracy, the majority has spoken," he warned, "and they said they don’t actually care that much about democracy.”
Dems believed 'political information complex'
Scott Jennings, a lone conservative voice at CNN, watched fellow panelists pull their hair out on election night. When it was his turn to weigh in, the straight-talking Republican tried to explain how Democrats had believed a list of lies about Trump. It was the media, he said, that did the lying.
“This election,” Jennings said, “is something of an indictment of the political information complex.”
Bill D’Agostino, of the Media Research Center, tells AFN the liberal media tried to hit Trump with several jaw-dropping lies, such as Trump joking about shooting Liz Cheney, in the final weeks of the campaign.
Another well-edited media lie was Trump’s comments, at a campaign rally, about protecting women. AFN reported last week that CNN was first caught deceptively editing his comments only for one of its own, Jake Tapper, to fact-check Harris for running with the lie, too.
The media reported those lies with a “straight face,” D’Agostino recalls, only for the public to “pounce on” the deceptive journalists for their lies.
Knight: Some liberals get it
Robert Knight, a Washington Times columnist, tells AFN he has watched Democrats and journalists trying to explain how the Harris campaign, and the DNC, failed to listen to voters’ concerns.
“Some thoughtful Democrats,” he says, “are actually acknowledging that the party has been out of step with voters on key concerns such as illegal immigration, the economy, and cultural issues such as men in women’s sports and transgender sex change treatments on minors.”
One example is Democrat activist Lindy Li, a member of the Harris-Walz campaign. In an honest assessment of the campaign, she told Fox News the campaign was in a "state of shock" after Latinos, Asians, and blacks voted for Trump in large numbers.
"There's going to be a lot of soul searching in the next couple of days," Li predicted. "I hope we can do an honest assessment and not criticize the people who have ideas and solutions about how we can move forward.
An example from the news media is Jan Crawford, a CBS News legal correspondent. In a post on X, she criticized a New York Times headline that ominously warned Trump’s win “Changes Nation’s Sense of Itself.”
“Isn’t the headline here,” Crawford wrote, “'Victory Reveals NYT Doesn’t Understand Nation.'"
Lamb, the College Fix editor, tells AFN he can sympathize with people who are upset their preferred candidate lost. That is part of politics and political campaigns, he says, but life goes on.
“If you are for illegal immigrant prisoners getting free transgender surgeries, I can see why you're upset because Kamala Harris lost,” he says. “But if you are for biological reality, you want lower taxes, you don't want to be involved in wars every place, then you're probably glad Trump won.”
