MAUREEN CALLAHAN: It’s 2016 again! Kamala’s a sore loser like Hillary. Trump-hating liberals are wailing. And a bold new chapter beckons for America

Donald Trump’s huge victory is a repeat of 2016 – right down to a disappointing female candidate, who is nevertheless heavily favored by the mainstream media, and who couldn’t even show her face to concede on election night.

Doesn’t that say it all?

Kamala Harris thought she had what it took to become President of the United States, yet lacks the integrity, humility and strength of character to admit defeat.

Just as Hillary Clinton did during her epic loss, an emissary was dispatched to tell all those loyal fans gathered at Kamala’s headquarters to pack up and go home.

Their dear leader would not participate, now or ever.

Kamala Harris thought she had what it took to become President of the United States, yet lacks the integrity, humility and strength of character to admit defeat.

Yet we were told that this was the candidate of the class. This was the candidate in character.

She didn’t even have the courage or grace to admit defeat in time. Guess who the Democrats blame for that?

Women. White women, in particular.

Here was Joy Reid on MSNBC last night, self-soothing in the only way she knows how: ‘We need to be blunt about why black voters came out for Harris [but] white women voters do not… This will be the second chance white women in this country have to change the way they interact with patriarchy.”

Sunny Hostin, in funereal black on The View, pointed out that “white women” were vomiting for Trump before clarifying, “Uneducated white women.”

The New York Times, which had spent what little capital remained to trash Trump as Hitler, called the result a “stunning return to power after a dark and defiant campaign.”

Funny – I doubt his supporters thought it was anything but optimistic, forward-looking and healthy.

During the NYT podcast ‘The Daily’ on Wednesday morning, the main talking point of the resistance emerged: how to deal with the first US president who is a convicted felon and impeached twice?

Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show: ‘I promise you, this is not the end… we have to keep fighting and keep working day in and day out to create a better society for our children, for this world, for this country, which we know is possible. It’s possible.’

The mainstream media really hasn’t learned anything. Once again, as with Hillary – and Joe Biden – they ignored or discredited stories damaging to their candidate, discredited Trump and his supporters at every opportunity (“trash,” according to Joe), called out sexism and now racism , and then watched in disbelief. because this same electorate gave them the middle finger.

Make no mistake: this resounding victory was as much a repudiation of Joe Biden as it was Kamala Harris.

Just as Hillary Clinton did during her epic loss, an emissary was dispatched to tell all those loyal fans gathered at Kamala’s headquarters to pack up and go home. Yet we were told that this was the candidate of the class. This was the candidate with character.

It was one cri de coeur for a return to normality, law and order, a secure border, an economy that works for the middle class and a strong foreign policy.

It’s also a rejection of racism, wokeism, transgenderism, and the kind of DEI orthodoxy that brought us Kamala Harris herself—a candidate so lazy, unoriginal, and patronizing that she thought she’d win the female vote on one issue alone : abortion. .

How wrong she was. How very, very wrong.

Florida voters ratified the controversial six-week abortion ban. That so-called “hidden Kamala voter” – you know, the kind of strong, independent woman who lies to her husband about not voting for Trump – has failed to emerge. because it doesn’t exist.

Trump had at least as many, if not more, hidden voters than he did in 2016.

He won the night early and has won the popular vote, a congruence that leaves no doubt about what the American people think, feel and want.

And it’s nothing the left has to offer.