Sunny Hostin whines Trump’s victory a ‘referendum on cultural resentment’

The narrative didn’t stop for the ladies at “The View” as one co-host cried “referendum on cultural resentment” despite one obvious catch.

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Festivus came early on ABC’s daytime talk show as the struggle session of mostly funerary black-clad commentators took turns airing their grievances over the election of the once and future President Donald Trump. Not only was the GOP leader projected to sweep the battleground states, but his gains among Hispanic and black voters belied Sunny Hostin’s hot take that left her “profoundly disturbed.”

Continuing to gripe about a number of the claims made against the president, including asserting he should have been ineligible to hold office after the lawfare brought against him, the former prosecutor shifted to identity politics.

“As a woman of color, I was so hopeful that a mixed race woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected president of this country,” Hostin said of Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. “And I think that it had nothing to do with policy. I think this was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.”

The obvious issue with the take was that “her truth” was readily disconnected from reality as NBC News exit polls not only showed that a vast majority of voters were either “Dissatisfied” or “Angry” with the state of the nation, supporters of Trump far and away voted based on the economy, and the GOP leader took the majority of Hispanic men by 10 points while more than doubling his support among black men in battleground states compared to 2020.

“I’m profoundly disturbed. I think if you look at The New York Times this morning, the headline was ‘America Makes a Perilous Choice.’ I think that in 2016, we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration. But we know now, and we know now that he will have almost unfettered power,” insisted Hostin, holding fast to her Trump Derangement Syndrome view of what the next presidential administration would look like.

“And so I worry, not about myself, actually — I don’t worry about my station in life,” she continued, seemingly acknowledging that her success had sheltered her from the problems faced by everyday Americans throughout the Biden-Harris administration. “I worry about the working class. I worry about my mother, a retired teacher. I worry about our elderly and their Social Security and their Medicare. I worry about my children’s future, especially my daughter, who now has less rights than I have.”

“And I remember my father telling me many, many years ago that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights. And now I have less civil rights than I had when he told me that,” she contended even though the Democratic Party remained in charge of the Senate until the beginning of 2025 and President Joe Biden’s term lasts until Jan. 20.

“So, again, I’m profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States,” charged Hostin as she suggested the “convicted felon” box be pulled from job applications if Trump could still be elected president.

Of course, the glum demeanors of Sunny, Whoopi, and Joy brought smiles to others, like actor, Trump supporter, and California survivor Scott Baio who, for the viewing pleasure of those celebrating “Morning in America Again,” shared his reaction to the kickoff of Wednesday’s coffee klatch.

Kevin Haggerty

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