Do you want to know who had a bad election night? People in the Obama White House. Obama staffer Ben Rhodes just couldn’t believe that you came out in force to reject what he did on a daily basis.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
“I woke up the morning after election night kind of shellshocked, and that’s when it hit me,” Rhodes said on “CBS This Morning.”
“Is that what he won on? A change election and a corrupt establishment?” CBS host Norah O’Donnell asked. “Well, that was his message. The racism and misogyny was also a part of the message,” he said.Rhodes then recounted sitting in the apartment of Obama speechwriter Coby Keenan and taking a call from the president as Trump’s victory unfolded. The president was wondering what to say the next day. “We’re all just absorbing this news and this new reality, and I do realize in that moment that I don’t think that we had inhabited the likelihood of Trump winning. We hadn’t put ourselves in that place, and you had that shellshock,” he said. “Then the next morning, you start to analyze it.”
Rhodes also discussed the excerpted section of his book where Obama pondered aloud following Trump’s victory, “What if we were wrong?” Rhodes said Obama had read a column following Clinton’s defeat over whether Democrats had pushed the country too hard in the direction of globalization. “Any number of causal factors led to President Trump, and what I answer in the book is that question, which is I don’t think we were wrong,” he said.
In the stages of grief, Ben Rhodes is somewhere between denial and bargaining, but apparently has yet to accept why his boss’ policies lost. America rejected the Obama/Clinton approach, and that doesn’t make them racist; that makes them responsible. Even in defeat, he continues to insult the American voters who rejected him and sought instead to make America great again with President Trump. Hillary Clinton was the face of a “corrupt establishment”, and Ben Rhodes is too deep into the swamp’s muck to notice.
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