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| 2016: the "liberal" media doing their best to take Hillary down. |
The elections during my life (and at least a bit before) have been a reflection of how angry people are at their (perceived) situation, and how much they (especially the press - see above) resent a smart candidate.
("Everyone hates the smartest kid in class." -The first few chapters here.)
1960: TV, combined with the media fawning over JFK while disliking Nixon, let Kennedy's team steal that election.
1964: Crazy Republican, but mostly "honoring" the idealized memory of JFK.
1968: White anger at civil rights and youth anger at Vietnam.
1972: Everyone (including prominent Democrats) hated McGovern.
1976: Backlash to Watergate, anger at inflation.
1980: Anger at inflation, the media hated Carter, and Reagan made older whites feel better about themselves.
1984: Everyone hated Mondale, still tainted with Carter's reputation.
1988: The blue-blood GHW Bush made Dukkakis into the dweeby smart kid.
1992: Bubba made GHW Bush the out-of-touch spoiled kid.
1996: Bubba was still the "regular" guy and things in the country were going the best they have during my entire life (maybe ever).
2000: The media hated Al Gore, which let GWB steal the election.
2004: Kerry was cast as the smart, flip-flopping, goodie-two-shoes everyone hates. (That was our last chance for a real democracy; if Kerry had won Ohio, we might have gotten rid of the Electoral College.)
2008: Everyone angry, the media was enamored with Obama.
2012: Even though Obama was an intellectual, Romney was cast as the kid you want to punch.
2016: Media hated Hillary (and this); head of CBS Les Moonves on Tangerine Palpatine: “It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS”
2020: People so angry during the pandemic that, finally, more people voted for the winner than didn't vote!
2024: The media wanted Orange Jeebus back; many young people obsessed with the Doom cult; tons of incels enraged at the world.
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