Not everyone who is on the left side of the political spectrum is freaking out after now-President-elect Donald Trump’s massive win over Vice President Kamala Harris. And that includes “Young Turks” media founder Cenk Uygur, who says he’s quite “optimistic” after Trump’s win.
Uygur, who was once highly critical of Trump, has shifted his perspective, acknowledging that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is no longer the “mortal enemy” he once believed it to be. Instead, he now sees the political establishment as his true adversary, a sentiment he expressed in a series of social media posts. “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” 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. The founder of The Young Turks expressed his enthusiasm for the growth of independent journalism on social media, professing his admiration for the free and unrestricted media landscape online.
“Now, online media is strong enough that their oppressive monopoly on the American mind has been broken. Now, we’re in the jungle. They hate that! I love it! This uncontrolled marketplace of ideas is where I’m home. I’d rather be in the populist woods than an establishment prison,” Uygur wrote. He has drawn attention on X for acknowledging Trump and his allies’ efforts by giving “credit where credit is due” on several issues. These include Trump’s post-election exchanges with Morning Joe co-hosts and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Uygur criticized the misrepresentation of Trump’s out-of-context “bloodbath” comment as a hoax and commended the president-elect’s bravery after surviving a shooting incident in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. The founder of The Young Turks also expressed his admiration for Elon Musk, the owner of X and a close ally of Trump, for encouraging open dialogue about plans to reduce the Pentagon’s budget.
“I asked @elonmusk to put me in charge of cutting the Pentagon. And he said – what are your suggestions? I run the largest left-wing network online and a Democratic leader has NEVER asked me that question. The idea that they would take advice from a populist is disdainful to them,” Ugyur wrote on Nov. 19. During a recent panel discussion on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Ugyur delivered a fiery response to the “deluded” Allan Lichtman, who he said “deserve[s] a tall glass of shut up juice” for incorrectly predicting Harris’s victory.
“You’re SO deluded.”
Cenk Uygur clashes with pollster Allan Lichtman over the downfall of the Democrats.
Allan: “Who taught you manners?!”
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— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) November 19, 2024
