Republican wins: "They have a mandate, the people have spoken, everyone needs to come together and allow them to implement their policy agenda."
Democrat wins: "It's time for them to unite the country and work with republicans to find a way to compromise and implement the republican policy agenda."
The fun part is that these apply even when the republican wins with a minority of the vote or the democrat wins in the largest landslide this century.
Somehow the MSM and the political establishment have become allergic to ever declaring Democrats have a policy mandate. Seemingly every Dem win, no matter how large, is due to special circumstances of the moment, personal factors, campaign quality, or possibly GOP blunders or overreach.
Funny how “he won the election” never applies to Democrats
Republican wins: "They have a mandate, the people have spoken, everyone needs to come together and allow them to implement their policy agenda."
Democrat wins: "It's time for them to unite the country and work with republicans to find a way to compromise and implement the republican policy agenda."
The fun part is that these apply even when the republican wins with a minority of the vote or the democrat wins in the largest landslide this century.
Somehow the MSM and the political establishment have become allergic to ever declaring Democrats have a policy mandate. Seemingly every Dem win, no matter how large, is due to special circumstances of the moment, personal factors, campaign quality, or possibly GOP blunders or overreach.
Which is why Josh Marshall always repeats that "DC is wired for Republicans" regardless of media political registration.
The problem is more that Democrats are allergic to declaring that they have a policy mandate.
Democrat win: "The Democrat cheated and didn't really win. We need to take our government back by force".