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‘MAGA is not my mortal enemy’: Prominent left-wing pundit Cenk Uygur ‘optimistic’ after Trump win
https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/30/maga-...ump-media/
INTRO: Cenk Uygur, founder of the left-wing media outlet The Young Turks, said Friday that he is “optimistic” as President-elect Donald Trump gears up for his second term in office.
Uygur, previously extremely critical of Trump, shared his realization that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is not his “mortal enemy” like he once believed. He identified the political establishment as his true foe in a series of posts on social media.
“I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m more optimistic now than I was before the election, even though I was so against the guy who won. I know now. MAGA is not my mortal enemy (and neither is the extreme left). My mortal enemy is the establishment. And they have been defeated!” Uygur wrote on X.
Uygur said Trump’s win was a result of more than “establishment candidate” Vice President Kamala Harris falling short at the ballot box, pointing to the decline of legacy media “propaganda.”
“It’s not just that the establishment candidate lost, it’s that their media is mortally wounded. The source of their strength was not insipid politicians like Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden. The source of their strength was their propaganda machine — the mainstream media,” he wrote... (MORE - details)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/30/maga-...ump-media/
INTRO: Cenk Uygur, founder of the left-wing media outlet The Young Turks, said Friday that he is “optimistic” as President-elect Donald Trump gears up for his second term in office.
Uygur, previously extremely critical of Trump, shared his realization that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is not his “mortal enemy” like he once believed. He identified the political establishment as his true foe in a series of posts on social media.
“I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m more optimistic now than I was before the election, even though I was so against the guy who won. I know now. MAGA is not my mortal enemy (and neither is the extreme left). My mortal enemy is the establishment. And they have been defeated!” Uygur wrote on X.
Uygur said Trump’s win was a result of more than “establishment candidate” Vice President Kamala Harris falling short at the ballot box, pointing to the decline of legacy media “propaganda.”
“It’s not just that the establishment candidate lost, it’s that their media is mortally wounded. The source of their strength was not insipid politicians like Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden. The source of their strength was their propaganda machine — the mainstream media,” he wrote... (MORE - details)