ABC via SnapStream Democrats have flipped the House and Senate and before any of them have been sworn into office, many seem to already be drunk on power as they publicly fantasize about all the far-left policies they’re going to enact. Their over zealousness was such an obvious problem that even some of the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View could see the writing on the wall. Most of the cast wanted fixing affordability as the might priority for their fellow Democrats.Following a clip of presumed future Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries boasting about all the far-left liberal policies they were going to pass and all the political investigations/prosecutions they were going to pursue, fill-in moderator Joy Behar wondered if it was wise:So, here's the question, should they be investigating the Trump administration or trying to work with them to work on issues like affordability and other things? Which do you think is the big priority?Surprisingly, co-host Sunny Hostin, a friend and big proponent of Jeffries, broke with him on much of what he wanted to do right away. “I think the big priority is affordability,” she said. “You know, we just had Senator-elect Talarico on. We just had Senator-elect el-Sayed on and they both said that. They both said affordability, affordability, affordability, and healthcare.” It's so obvious that Democrats won't be able to stifle their worst instincts and push their most extreme policies in the next Congress that even members of The View want them to back off:(…)JOY BEHAR: So, here's the question, should they be investigating the Trump… pic.twitter.com/3jNDdMFYkY— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 6, 2026 “Yeah, but why should this criminal group get away with it?” Behar shrieked. “The guy’s coming away from this administration with $2.2 billion. His children made money. The Epstein files, the Epstein files are still a big mystery.”The cast members who were the most zealous in trying to get Trump were the show’s purported Republicans. “But you have to be able to walk and chew gum,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said.Ana Navarro wanted to reassure people that Democrats could multitask to get Trump and push their far-left agenda too:But people need to understand how Congress works, right? There's all of these different committees that can work on legislation of their jurisdiction. So, the agricultural committee could be out there doing farm policy while Robert Garcia is running his Oversight Committee and doing oversight on Epstein and on the corruption and on the grift and abuses of power.  And you know what? Jayapal is going to be chair of the Immigration Subcommittee. I cannot wait for her to get some of those agents in front of her who have been shooting and killing people on the streets of America.Farah Griffin reiterated that Democrats “need to walk and chew gum, because corruption was a top issue so there needs to be oversight, there needs to be investigations and accountability, but affordability is the most important thing.”She also warned them not to over play their hand and try to rush through their most extreme policies:The biggest thing that Trump fumbled after 2024 was taking winning as an endorsement of all his craziest far-right extreme ideas. What I would caution Democrats against is, you guys have a sweeping victory but it was moderates that were the majority makers for you guys. So, to lean into the farthest left policies would also be a mistake. Focus on the cost of living.This was all similar to moderator Whoopi Goldberg’s comments from Thursday when she warned Democrats to fix things first:I'm just going to say this, Democrats you know what you need to do. I just want to say, I know there's a lot of stuff y'all want to get done but you need to fix some stuff before you start putting out all kinds of summons and all kinds - We need stuff taken care of. And I know you're not coming in till January but we don't want to see you reflecting what they did to the nation. We don't want to see that. Whoopi Goldberg scolds Democrats. She tells them to "fix some stuff" (presumably she means affordability) before doing political prosecutions:"I'm just going to say this, Democrats you know what you need to do. I just want to say, I know there's a lot of stuff y'all want to get… pic.twitter.com/A8eJL2jK91— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 5, 2026 It’s obvious Democrats were champing at the bit to do the most extreme things. So obvious that many on the left were probably fearful of going too far and harming their chances in 2028. The View had made it clear they had an eye on the calendar too.The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:ABC’s The ViewNovember 6, 202611:15:53 a.m. Eastern(…)JOY BEHAR: So, here's the question, should they be investigating the Trump administration or trying to work with them to work on issues like affordability and other things? Which do you think is the big priority?SUNNY HOSTIN: I think the big priority is affordability. I mean, Americans can't -- there are farmers that's can't run their farm equipment because they can't afford diesel. There are working class Americans that can't drive to work, they can't even afford to take the train or take the bus because it's become so expensive. They can't afford to feed their children. They can't afford to - their public schools are failing.BEHAR: So, it's important.HOSTIN: They need to do that and we've had –[Light applause]Thank you. But, we’ve had - You know, we just had Senator-elect Talarico on. We just had Senator-elect el-Sayed on.[Applause]And they both said that. They both said affordability, affordability, affordability, and healthcare.BEHAR: Yeah, but why should this criminal group get away with it?[Crosstalk]BEHAR: The guy’s coming away from this administration with $2.2 billion.HOSTIN: That's true.BEHAR: His children made money.ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But you have to be able to walk and chew gum.BEHAR: The Epstein files, the Epstein files are still a big mystery.NAVARRO: Listen, I can assure you Robert Garcia who’s going to be the new chair of the Oversight Committee is going to get to the bottom of the Epstein files and that's something that's going to be a focus of this.But people need to understand how Congress works, right? There's all of these different committees that can work on legislation of their jurisdiction. So, the agricultural committee could be out there –HOSTIN: That’s’ true.NAVARRO: - doing farm policy while Robert Garcia is running his Oversight Committee and doing oversight on Epstein and on the corruption and on the grift and abuses of power.And you know what?BEHAR: What?NAVARRO: Jayapal is going to be chair of the Immigration Subcommittee.HOSTIN: Oh, really?!NAVARRO: I cannot wait for her to get some of those agents in front of her who have been shooting and killing people on the streets of America.HOSTIN: Wow.[Applause]FARAH GRIFFIN: I see it as a need to walk and chew gum, because corruption was a top issue so there needs to be oversight, there needs to be investigations and accountability, but affordability is the most important thing.The biggest thing that Trump fumbled after 2024 was taking winning as an endorsement of all his craziest far-right extreme ideas. What I would caution Democrats against is, you guys have a sweeping victory but it was moderates that were the majority makers for you guys. So, to lean into the farthest left policies would also be a mistake. Focus on the cost of living.Like, I’s like to point out no one is even talking about my dear friend Governor Josh Shapiro because we forgot he was even on the ballot. He won by 22 points.BEHAR: He’s great, I like him a lot.FARAH GRIFFIN: Jon Ossoff in purple Georgia won by 18 points -BEHAR: Oh, Jon Ossoff, fabulous.FARAH GRIFFIN: They’re talking about the cost of living and delivering for the public. That’s where it's got to be.HAINES: To what Ana said, about they can walk or chew gum – or someone said.HOSTIN: Alyssa said.HAINES: Sorry, Alyssa said that.That can happen at the same time. I think the big thing is that the optical part we see is all about action being taken for the American people. Because that was the loudest message of this election. So, I do believe they can still hold people accountable because when a Fox poll is saying 88 percent of the American public is most concerned with corruption even before that, you can do both at the same time.(…)

MS NOW’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough is the kind of guy who fancies himself as someone defending true Christianity against the “Christian nationalists” who seek to pervert it. However, on Friday, Scarborough welcomed Rep. James Clyburn to bask in the results of Tuesday’s midterms and parroted his explicitly Christian analogy that claimed Democrats winning in the South has “redeemed” it in the same way Christ has redeemed the world.Scarborough began by marveling at the electoral map, “Look at that map. Congressman, I'm telling you what, from Lizard's Thicket in Columbia, South Carolina, to Whataburger in Austin, Texas, the Democrats have broken the Solid South. Talk about it. What happened?”Clyburn didn’t waste much time comparing his party’s win to Jesus, “Remember that song that we used to sing back in that Southern Baptist church you grew up in? And the fundamentalist Church of God that I grew up in. ‘If anybody asks you just who I am, tell them that I've been redeemed.’ I think that we saw on Tuesday a redemption of the South, unlike the Redeemer Democrats, we had back post-Reconstruction for the South, that has stayed true to the principles laid out in the Constitution of these United States.” Is this the Christian Nationalism I've been hearing so much about? After James Clyburn uses religious framing to say the South has been "redeemed," Joe Scarborough echoes the idea "This is one of the great stories of our time, political stories of our time, Congressman...You talk… pic.twitter.com/GQcLoVFs6l— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) November 6, 2026 Not finished with the redemption talk, Clyburn added, “All of the leadership roles down in Georgia are going to be held by—the statewide leadership roles—held by African American women. And we've been hearing it for the last several years now. What do African-American women get for the investments they've made in this Democratic Party? Well, just look in January and see who will be raising their hands and putting their left hand on the Bible, taking the oaths of office. You are going to see that we have been redeemed.”Scarborough’s effusive praise for Democrats was also just getting started, “This is one of the great stories of our time, political stories of our time, Congressman, because I remember after 2000 [sic] saying how remarkable it was that some of the people that could have been the most despondent and the most beaten down, and the first to ask, "Why do I have to step into the void and save this country?"”He then echoed the idea about redemption, “Well, they were the black women in Milwaukee, the black women in Detroit, the black women in Philadelphia that helped Joe Biden win in 2020 in that general election race and made the difference. And now you come six years forward and you talk about redemption. You talk about being redeemed. Black women in Georgia, a black man in Mississippi, a Hispanic woman in Texas. It's extraordinary. The most extraordinary part is that Republicans gutted civil rights protections to try to stop black representatives in the House.”Naturally, Scarborough's list of minority politicians from the South only included Democrats. As it was, Scarborough added, “And so these women and men said, ‘Okay, okay, that's fine, that's fine. We got Jim Clyburn in the House. We’ll just start winning governorships and Senate races.’ It's extraordinary how the attempts to crush civil rights in the Deep South blew up in Republicans’ face politically.”The fact that Democrats won in the South is evidence that all of the talk about Republicans hating civil rights and trying to suppress the vote was bunk. It was, however, a nice way for MS NOW to scare people into voting for Democrats despite the network’s instance that fearmongering is only a Republican thing because MS NOW believes that America can only be its true self when Democrats win.Here is a transcript for the November 6 show:MS NOW Morning Joe11/6/20267:43 AM ETJOE SCARBOROUGH: Look at that map. Congressman, I'm telling you what, from Lizard's Thicket in Columbia, South Carolina, to Whataburger in Austin, Texas, the Democrats have broken the Solid South. Talk about it. What happened?JAMES CLYBURN: Well, thank you so much for having me this morning. You know, if looking at me this morning and seeing the look on my face, remember that song that we used to sing back in that Southern Baptist church you grew up in? And the fundamentalist Church of God that I grew up in. SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.CLYBURN: “If anybody asks you just who I am, tell them that I've been redeemed.”I think that we saw on Tuesday a redemption of the South, unlike the Redeemer Democrats, we had back post-Reconstruction for the South, that has stayed true to the principles laid out in the Constitution of these United States.And that preamble that says we are in search of a more perfect union. We took a giant step back toward that track, toward a more perfect union. I'm so proud of Mississippi, of South Carolina, of North Carolina, of Texas. I'm proud of Georgia. My goodness, an African-American woman can be the next governor of Georgia.All of the leadership roles down in Georgia are going to be held by—the statewide leadership roles—held by African American women. And we've been hearing it for the last several years now. What do African-American women get for the investments they've made in this Democratic Party? Well, just look in January and see who will be raising their hands and putting their left hand on the Bible, taking the oaths of office. You are going to see that we have been redeemed.SCARBOROUGH: This is one of the great stories of our time, political stories of our time, Congressman, because I remember after 2000 [sic] saying how remarkable it was that some of the people that could have been the most despondent and the most beaten down, and the first to ask, "Why do I have to step into the void and save this country?"Well, they were the black women in Milwaukee, the black women in Detroit, the black women in Philadelphia that helped Joe Biden win in 2020 in that general election race and made the difference. And now you come six years forward and you talk about redemption. You talk about being redeemed. Black women in Georgia, a black man in Mississippi, a Hispanic woman in Texas. It's extraordinary. The most extraordinary part is that Republicans gutted civil rights protections to try to stop black representatives in the House.CLYBURN: Absolutely.SCARBOROUGH: And so these women and men said, “Okay, okay, that's fine, that's fine. We got Jim Clyburn in the House. We’ll just start winning governorships and Senate races.” It's extraordinary how the attempts to crush civil rights in the Deep South blew up in Republicans’ face politically.

MS NOW via SnapStream During Wednesday’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell took a victory lap following the Democrats’ win in the midterm elections, and repeatedly declared that “the bad guys lost” some 12 times while celebrating what he portrayed as a long awaited Hollywood-style ending to American politics.O’Donnell began the segment by praising Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, and claimed that no candidate in American history had been “more viciously and falsely attacked.” O’Donnell then introduced a clip of El-Sayed addressing his supporters before leading into his rant:EL-SAYED: And so to all the kids who watched this last month, to all the parents who struggled to explain why the president openly mocked someone for their name or how they pray, let them know tomorrow that the bad guys lost.Echoing El-Sayed’s message “The bad guys lost. So important. That was the movie ending we all grew up with, that bad guys lost. That was the way it always was supposed to end. The bad guys lost in the end.” O’Donnell then took viewers through his own version of American political history, suggesting that the country had experienced several different endings before finally arriving at the one he wanted.  “Sometimes you might not know how long the movie turned out to be,” said O’Donnell before referencing Richard Nixon’s resignation following the Watergate scandal. O’Donnell continued by describing how viewers may have thought that “the bad guys won, twice” in reference to Nixon’s reelection. He then concluded that Americans “didn't know how long that movie was” until many in Nixon’s administration who went to prison, in which Democrats “knew once again that the bad guys lost in the end.”But, according to O’Donnell, the story took another unfortunate turn with Trump:That wasn't supposed to just be in the movies. That was supposed to be the American way. The bad guys lost. Then came Donald Trump, and he won the Electoral College after coming in second in the vote in 2016. But then he lost to Joe Biden in 2020. And we got to think once again that the bad guys lose in the end. But it wasn't the end for Donald Trump.O’Donnell then went on to make up a scenario of a 15-year-old boy whose community Trump “viciously attacks on a daily basis.” Though O’Donnell failed to specify what form these attacks take, it can be assumed that he’s referring to ICE. If this is the case, then yes, Trump was in fact getting the bad guys out that are making communities worse.This dramatic framing that O’Donnell frequently takes should be noted, given his history of covering the Trump administration's election-monitoring efforts, in which Democrats pushed speculation on DOJ election monitors. O’Donnell was even sure to note this monitoring could be connected to the GOP's apparent effort to interfere with the election.For O’Donnell, the midterms were a perfect ending to a political movie, complete with heroes, villains, and an amazing cliffhanger.The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:MS NOW’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’DonnellNovember 4, 202610:15:44 p.m. Eastern(...)LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: No candidate for the United States Senate in our history has been more viciously and falsely attacked than Senator elect El-Sayed, who found the simplest way to describe the most important thing about last night's drama.[CUT TO VIDEO]ABDUL EL-SAYED: And so to all the kids who watched this last month, to all the parents who struggled to explain why the president openly mocked someone for their name or how they pray, let them know tomorrow that the bad guys lost.[END OF VIDEO]O’DONNELL: The bad guys lost. So important. That was the movie ending we all grew up with, that bad guys lost. That was the way it always was supposed to end. The bad guys lost in the end. Sometimes you might not know how long the movie turned out to be. Like when Richard Nixon won the presidency in 1968 and then got reelected with an even bigger vote in 1972. You might have thought then that the bad guys won, twice, but that's just because you didn't know how long that movie was. And the Nixon movie ended in 1974, with Richard Nixon resigning the presidency halfway through his second term, accepting a pardon for his crimes committed in the White House. While watching 40 of his associates and staff go to prison. And then we knew once again that the bad guys lost in the end. That wasn't supposed to just be in the movies. That was supposed to be the American way. The bad guys lost. Then came Donald Trump, and he won the Electoral College after coming in second in the vote in 2016. But then he lost to Joe Biden in 2020. And we got to think once again that the bad guys lose in the end. But it wasn't the end for Donald Trump.He came back in a version of a movie we'd never seen. And so, for a 15 year old boy in America listening to senator elect El-Sayed's say last night, the idea that the bad guys lost is not not that 15 year old boys lived experience except in the movies, especially if that little boy is in one of the communities in this country that Donald Trump viciously attacks on a daily basis. And so for those of us who became unmoored from that safe American belief that the bad guys lose, in the end, it could be hard to believe that it was really happening last night. That could be part of why people are struggling to, as they say, wrap their heads around it. And then we heard a new senator say it. The bad guys lost, and then we could feel it. The bad guys lost, and then we could know where we really are in this drama.(...)

Everything, not just gas, is going to become less affordable, if the radical Democrats elected to Congress on Tuesday put their policies into effect, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) warned Thursday, commenting on the results of this week’s midterm elections.People who believed Democrats’ promise to make things more affordable are in for a big, unwelcome surprise, Sen. Cruz told Host Sean Hannity in a Fox News Channel interview:“As tragic as the election results were and, unfortunately, everyone who was pissed off at high prices: things are about to get much worse, because of the policies of the radicals they elected.“They don’t want gas prices at $4, $5, $6 – they want them at $10, $12, $15. They want to ban the gasoline engine – every cost you pay, if the Democrats have their way, they’re going to drive costs up.”Indeed, Democrats have long sought to destroy the fossil fuel and traditional energy industries, under the pretense of saving the planet from imminent environmental doom. And, once Democrats take control of both chambers of Congress, they’re going to go all-out to achieve their radical goals, Cruz said.“That’s going to do a lot of damage to Americans and Texans. And I grieve for that,” Sen. Cruz said.On the bright side, radical Democrats’ zeal is going to cause them to overreach and “out of that damage, we are going to turn this country around” by standing up for tried and true American values, Cruz promised:“We’re going to do it by actually standing up for free market principles, standing up for jobs, standing up for people’s families, standing up for common sense against the Marxists and Islamists that are now driving the agenda.”

Screenshot from NPR.org What kind of supposedly respectable pundit did National "Public" Radio go looking for on the morning after the big blue wave came ashore for the Left? Looking for a hip influencer of American youth, NPR once again happily interviewed Mao-loving, Hamas-backing Hasan Piker on Wednesday’s Morning Edition. It came under the headline:Hasan Piker says Democrats must craft a 'resilient' and 'easily identifiable' party platformOn October 15, NPR Morning Edition anchor Leila Fadel awarded Piker a 40-minute Newsmakers softball interview that was posted on YouTube. This time, the anchor was Michel Martin. And once again, NPR didn't dig into Piker describing mass-murdering communist dictator Mao Zedong as a "great leader," and never touched his declaration that "America deserved 9/11."MICHEL MARTIN: Let's talk now with somebody who is closely identified with the progressive wing of the party as a surrogate, as a campaigner, as an advocate. And that is Twitch streamer and commentator Hasan Piker. Hasan Piker, good morning, or should I say hello, since apparently you've been up all night and haven't slept?...Well, do the best you can. Stay with us. What do you think is the message that voters sent last night?HASAN PIKER: I think it's very clear that the last two years of Trump was an absolute, utter disaster and that voters from basically every demographic all across the country in virtually every locality, every state, every House district decided to punish the Trump administration and the Republican Party for the death and destruction it's brought about all around the world, the instability that it's caused and its impact that they felt on the gas prices here at home.This is as close as NPR came to describing Piker’s radicalism – well, actually they let Piker do it:MARTIN: So you just heard our colleague Elena Moore mention that the exit polling suggests that Republicans lost pretty much all the gains they made with young men in 2024. That's your Twitch audience. Your Twitch audience is overwhelmingly young and overwhelmingly male, as I understand it. What were you hearing from them during your livestream last night as the results rolled in?PIKER: I would say that they are considered a little bit more radical than most. We are obviously further left than the Democratic Party. But it was - I mean, we were libbing out, to say the least, last night. We were very excited about it.Then it turned more amusing as Piker basically said he used to think America was a viciously racist country until his favorite candidates emerged victorious:PIKER: It's very exciting to see this coalition build after two years of this algorithm-induced manic state that we were experiencing, where it almost felt like this country was far more vicious, far more racist than it actually was. I myself was at the center of some of this controversy, some of these attacks in not just the Abdul El-Sayed race in Michigan, but in races that I did not touch at all. And it definitely made me feel and our community feel as though racist vitriol was the only thing that Republicans had to bring to the table after all of the destruction that they had brought about on the American economy. And I sincerely was worried that the Republicans would respond positively to that. And it turns out there is time for - there is hope, and there is time for optimism in America, in American politics.Martin felt it was important to point out that Republicans didn’t succeed in convincing voters that Piker-endorsed candidates were radicals:MARTIN: But, you know, there were Democrats, establishment Democrats, if we want to call them that, who said that you were the problem or that your side was the problem. Some people argued that some of the candidates you supported were not attractive candidates because they argued that they could never win, especially in swing states. That has turned out not to be true.PIKER: Yeah.MARTIN: So I'm wondering what message you think that sends.PIKER: I think it's great. We have a big tent. You know, I - we brought the under-45-year-olds. We brought the young men. They brought the Barbaras and the Deborahs in the suburbs.This is where the headline portion of the interview kicked in: PIKER: I really hope that we can continue this exact same trajectory, start investigations on the Trump administration, unearth some of the unbelievable corruption that we've seen, and bring accountability to the White House and to the regulatory agencies that this administration has gutted and destroyed.MARTIN: Is that going to be enough?PIKER: No. We also need to have a resilient platform that is easily identifiable, with key policy agenda items that focus on the material realities.Clearly, NPR and its left-wing audience like hearing from Hasan. Repeatedly! But NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride did have to struggle with much listener outrage when NPR offered a long "Newsmakers" interview in September to Tucker Carlson.