Progressive media character Cenk Uygur signaled optimism following President-elect Trump’s win within the 2024 presidential election, saying his enemy was “the establishment,” which was “defeated.”
“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,” Uygur wrote Friday in a submit on social platform X. “I do know now.”
“MAGA is not my mortal enemy (and neither is the extreme left),” he continued, referring to Trump’s “Mage America Great Again” marketing campaign motto. “My mortal enemy is the institution. And so they have been defeated!”
“The Young Turks” host added that “it isn’t simply that the institution candidate misplaced, it is 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.
Uygur, who stated he disagreed with the “majority” of Trump’s agenda, has been overtly essential of the Democratic Celebration on a number of points, together with a perceived delay in calling on President Biden to drop his reelection bid since final yr.
“[Biden] is not going to win,” Uygur stated in October final yr when asserting his major bid, practically a yr earlier than Democrats pressured Biden to withdraw following a disastrous debate with Trump. “It should not have been me, it should have been somebody else, but unfortunately it was not anyone else.”
The previous 2024 presidential candidate, who dropped his long-shot bid in early March, additionally condemned Colorado and Maine’s choice to forestall Trump from showing on the state’s ballots earlier this yr, arguing that “we should support democracy.”
Just lately, he has supplied his endorsement of Trump’s decide for Labor secretary, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.), who was backed by Teamsters’ President Sean O’Brien and has sturdy assist from unions.
“Now, online media is strong enough that their oppressive monopoly on the American mind has been broken,” he wrote Friday on X. “Now, we’re within the jungle. They hate that! I adore it!”
“This uncontrolled marketplace of ideas is where I’m home. I’d rather be in the populist woods than an establishment prison,” Uygur added.
