Trump's Role In The 2000 Presidential Election

Every presidential election year tensions and tempers flare between opposing party supporters. This year’s election season was no different, perhaps even more volatile than years past. The popular phrase “lesser of two evils” was heard countless times throughout the election, denoting the nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to be the only available options, regardless of how ill received they were. The media played a monumental role in this election, basically framing out the nominees personalities which heavily influenced how voters perceieved them. The bias in the media was grossly transparent throughout the entire election, uplifting Clinton while dragging Trump’s name through the mud. The media’s perpetuation of false narratives
Many are familiar with the 2000 election where Al Gore won the popular vote but still lost the election, yet no one thought it would happen again so soon. There will always be a variety of opinions on a matter such as this, but in this case, Trump’s Electoral College win was more representative of America than the popular vote. If one looks at an electoral map of America by voting district, it is quite clear why Trump should have won. The map is a sea of red with Trump winning major swing states by a close margin . Clinton was able to win the popular vote by way of her large victories in states such as California where she won by several million votes
Pre-election, Trump was heavily criticized by Democrats for not explicitly saying that he would accept the election if he lost. Now that he has won, the narrative has quite ironically flipped. Democrats, especially those active on social media, hounded Trump and his supporters throughout the election, fearing that if he won democracy would take a step backwards. With Clinton’s loss, thousands of liberals have hypocritically taken to the streets and internet to protest Trump’s victory. They have been chanting “we reject the president elect” and have gotten #NotMyPresidentTrump trending on twitter. Not even a day after the election and millions of young Americans have gone against their own words and rejected our rightfully elected 45th president. From a third person point of view, it would seem that these people are only reacting in such a way because their hopes have been crushed. One cannot help but wonder if the media had not falsely led so many astray if these peoples’ reactions would be similar to what they are