With nine days from the general election, the Regime Media have dispensed with any pretense of a pretense of subtlety. Case in point: Jon Karl’s most recent hysterical editorial on ABC This Week.
Watch as Karl waxes hysteric about the stakes in this election, with a twist of lament that former President Donald Trump might actually win. Below is the opening editorial in its entirety, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, October 27th, 2024:
JON KARL: Good morning. Welcome to This Week. For most of us, Election Day is already here. Virtually all of us live in places where you don't have to wait until November 5th to cast your ballot. More than 40 million Americans have already voted. This morning, we're going to talk about where the race stands, who's up in the polls, who's down, the tactics the candidates are using to convince undecided voters and to get their supporters to turn out. But this isn't a sporting event. This is about much more than tactics or polls. If there's one thing both sides agree on, it's that America is making a choice that will say a great deal about what kind of a nation we are. And what kind of a nation we may become. Four years ago, Donald Trump became the first president in American history to refuse to accept the results of a presidential election, and to do everything in his power to try to overturn the will of the people. It was an effort that continued even after he left The White House. This time, Trump once again seems to be making it clear he won't accept the results if he loses, but he might not have to. Donald Trump has a very good chance of winning this election. He might even be at this moment, the front-runner. This even after his former Chief of Staff issued a stark warning this week that Trump wants to rule as a dictator, that he meets the textbook definition of a fascist. Once again, this is not a normal campaign.
This isn’t the first such editorial at This Week. In fact, it’s par for the course. Earlier this year, George Stephanopoulos screeched:
It's all too easy to fall into reflective habits- to treat this as a normal campaign where both sides embrace the rule of law, where both sides are dedicated to a debate based on facts and the peaceful transfer of power. But that is not what's happening this election year. Those bedrock tenets of our democracy are being tested in a way we haven't seen since the Civil War. It's a test for the candidates, for those of us in the media, and for all of us as citizens.
A week later, Karl followed up with:
For as long as I've covered politics, politicians have said, “this will be the most important election of our lifetimes.” They said that, no matter how high or low the stakes actually were. Election Day 2024 is exactly six months from today and this time, the divisions in our country are so vast and the choice so stark there's little doubt this really is the most important election of our time. No more crying wolf. This. Is it.
Of the Regime Media Sunday shows, ABC is likely the guiltiest of overwrought editorializing in service of an agenda. But this is new. Not only is Karl rehashing the same shibboleths about stakes, but he is acknowledging that the constant fearmongering about “stakes” might be for naught.
And, with that, there is the slightest twinge of disappointment reflected in the idea that America might ignore their warnings and re-elect Trump. Hell hath no fury like spurned gatekeepers.
