The most potent way to prove liberals hate America is to beat them in an election. Sunny Hostin, the staunchly racist co-host ABC’s The View, flaunted her anti-Americanism on Friday as she repeatedly shouted over her co-hosts as she demanded to know “what is wrong with America?!” and suggested the voters were “the problem.”
Anti-Trump Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin was one of the few cast members to do any healthy pondering on the results of the election. She made the important revelation that she has "the privilege of saying I'm voting on democracy" because she's "a high end income earner." She noted, "If your check engine light is coming on, you're not thinking about democracy" and people feel their "life was better" under President-elect Trump’s first term.
Hostin utterly refused to be introspective and (much like the Principal Skinner meme) insisted that it was the majority of Americans who were wrong. “I’d like to reframe the conversation…I think the more relevant question actually is: What is wrong with America?!” she chided.
“What is wrong with this country that they would choose a message of divisiveness of xenophobia, of racism, of misogyny over a message of inclusiveness, a message for the people, by the people, of the people?! That’s what the problem is,” she shouted.
Farah Griffin pointed out that Trump “won the popular vote.” “Well then, what's wrong with America?!” Hostin shouted again.
Things only went downhill from there.
Moderator Joy Behar was living in the past as she whined about the public turning on Democrats. “The Democrats are the ones who put in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, union protection, unemployment insurance, and Obamacare. The Republican Party doesn't give a rat's patooty about it! Come on!” she shouted. “[The voters are] not paying attention!”
If we want to see the full picture of what Democrats have been for, she also needs to include: slavery, Jim Crow laws, racially targeted gun control, racially targeted labor protections, eugenics, segregation, and opposing the Civil Rights Act. Just to name a few.
Farah Griffin tried to talk about how “the message of the Democrats sounded elitist; you don’t have value in the society if you don’t have a college degree!” “No one is saying that on the Democratic side!” Hostin lied.
What she said wasn’t true because two days prior, Hostin herself was attacking “uneducated white women” for supporting Trump.
Things quickly went off the rails after that as Farah Griffin was joined by Sara Haines in pleading for introspection on their side, but they were constantly shouted at by the rest of the cast. Behar proved she wasn’t actually listening to any one at the table when she was left confused by Haines decrying Hostin’s smear of all America as condescending (Click "expand"):
HAINES: But Joy, it's condescending! It’s condescending.
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: What’s condescending?
HAINES: The way that the left speaks to its voters. It really is.
HOSTIN: You mean the message of joy and inclusiveness!
HAINES: No, the message of not being educated and being dumb and “what’s wrong with America?”
BEHAR: Who said that?
FARAH GRIFFIN: Sunny just did!
HOSTIN: What is wrong with America?
Yes, Sunny, nothing says “joy and inclusiveness” like having those words screamed at you.
Things devolved into something of a screaming match as Hostin repeatedly lashed out at Haines, seemingly suggesting she secretly sided with Republicans, despite her being a Democrat who pretends to be an independent. Hostin screamed about how Republicans were the ones who “need to be introspective” despite being the victors, Haines and Farah Griffin confronted her (Click “expand”):
HAINES: My point is – I don't blame Joe Biden. I don’t blame Kamala Harris. Go back as far as you want. I blame a messaging within the Democratic Party.
HOSTIN: You don't blame the Republican Party at all?!
HAINES: Can I just finish my point, please? I obviously have a problem! Anyone has a problem with Donald Trump. The bigger question should be: yeah Sunny, why did they vote for him?
HOSTIN: Yes! So they need to be introspective!
FARAH GRIFFIN: No!
HAINES: No! We need to be introspective! If we voted for Kamala Harris, we need to say, “what didn't resonate with the voters?” You know what didn’t resonate with the voters? When they were saying ‘we don't feel safe’ and the left focused on Defund the Police and bail reform--
HOSTIN: They were also focused on gun control!
HAINES: Can I just finish? Let me just finish real quickly. When they were focused on –
BEHAR: It's only an hour show ladies!
HAINES: Joy. When they were focused on renaming schools, there were people saying, ‘yah, students are destroying colleges. I paid for that and sent them there and they can't learn.’ And everyone apologized for it and didn’t want to attend to it. They also denied the border was a crisis and kept saying, “No, no, no. It's fine. This is not a –
BEHAR: There was a border bill, though! There was a border bill!
[Crosstalk]
FARAH GRIFFIN: At the 11th hour three years into the Biden administration.
HAINES: Yes. But Joy, my point is they screamed and screamed and screamed. They didn't vote for him because he's a racist or a misogynist. They voted because they needed help in their everyday lives.
As they were going to a commercial break, Hostin launched into a psychotic screed about how America was, “A country that allows the environment to be ravaged, its children to be shot, its wealth to be hoarded, it’s workers to be exploited, its poor to starve, its cops to murder! It’s a country in trouble!”
The more reasonable voices shot back:
FARAH GRIFFIN: So, you think America's the problem?
HAINES: So, America is the problem and the voters of the problem?
If The View was a microcosm of the Democratic Party, the vast majority didn’t want to learn a lesson from 2024. Which would be to the benefit of Republicans.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
November 8, 2024
11:06:32 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: I’d like to reframe the conversation. I think Bernie Sanders is wrong. I think the more relevant question actually is: What is wrong with America?!
I think – What is wrong with our country that the Republican Party would choose as a candidate and support a candidate who is an insurrectionist, who is an election denier, who is someone who is twice impeached, 34-time convicted felon, someone who has been accused of alleged sexual misconduct by 26 women, found liable for sexual abuse.
What is wrong with this country that they would choose a message of divisiveness of xenophobia, of racism, of misogyny over a message of inclusiveness, a message for the people, by the people, of the people?! That’s what the problem is, it’s the Republican Party!
[Crosstalk]
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: It's not just Republicans. He won the popular vote.
HOSTIN: Well then, what's wrong with America?!
JOY BEHAR: But can I say something before – we can do the second – The Democrats are the ones -- they're the party that cares for the blue-collar voter.
HOSTIN: Exactly.
BEHAR: The Democrats are the ones who put in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, union protection, unemployment insurance, and Obamacare. The Republican Party doesn't give a rat's patooty about it! Come on!
FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, clearly they didn't convince the voters of that.
BEHAR: So, all I can deduce is that it’s the messaging! It didn't get through to people! They're not paying attention! That’s all. Because the Democrats have always been for the working people.
HOSTIN: Exactly. And the Republicans don’t care about it! The economy is going to crash under Trump!
[Crosstalk]
FARAH GRIFFIN: I think that the message of the Democrats sounded elitist; you don’t have value in the society if you don’t have a college degree!
BEHAR: They sounded that way, but when you look at the proof, they weren’t!
[Crosstalk]
HOSTIN: No one is saying that on the Democratic side!
SARA HAINES: But Joy, it's condescending! It’s condescending.
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: What’s condescending?
HAINES: The way that the left speaks to its voters. It really is.
HOSTIN: You mean the message of joy and inclusiveness!
HAINES: No, the message of not being educated and being dumb and “what’s wrong with America?”
BEHAR: Who said that?
FARAH GRIFFIN: Sunny just did!
HOSTIN: What is wrong with America?
[Crosstalk]
ANA NAVARRO: That's not what Kamala Harris said.
{crosstalk]
HAINES: My point is – I don't blame Joe Biden. I don’t blame Kamala Harris. Go back as far as you want. I blame a messaging within the Democratic Party.
HOSTIN: You don't blame the Republican Party at all?!
HAINES: Can I just finish my point, please? I obviously have a problem! Anyone has a problem with Donald Trump. The bigger question should be: yeah Sunny, why did they vote for him?
HOSTIN: Yes! So they need to be introspective!
FARAH GRIFFIN: No!
HAINES: No! We need to be introspective! If we voted for Kamala Harris, we need to say, “what didn't resonate with the voters?” You know what didn’t resonate with the voters? When they were saying ‘we don't feel safe’ and the left focused on Defund the Police and bail reform--
HOSTIN: They were also focused on gun control!
HAINES: Can I just finish? Let me just finish real quickly. When they were focused on –
BEHAR: It's only an hour show ladies!
HAINES: Joy. When they were focused on renaming schools, there were people saying, ‘yah, students are destroying colleges. I paid for that and sent them there and they can't learn.’ And everyone apologized for it and didn’t want to attend to it. They also denied the border was a crisis and kept saying, “No, no, no. It's fine. This is not a –
BEHAR: There was a border bill, though! There was a border bill!
[Crosstalk]
FARAH GRIFFIN: At the 11th hour three years into the Biden administration.
HAINES: Yes. But Joy, my point is they screamed and screamed and screamed. They didn't vote for him because he's a racist or a misogynist. They voted because they needed help in their everyday lives.
NAVARRO: Yeah, but Sara they voted for him-
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: How do you know that?
HAINES: Because every stat coming out on the people willing to self-reflect are showing these stats!
BEHAR: Oh wait, they're going to say I'm a racist, I’m a misogynist in the exit polling?! I don’t think so
FARAH GRIFFIN: Do you really think 74 million people are racist and misogynist?
HAINES: Joy, every racist and misogynist voted for Donald Trump, not everyone that voted for Donald Trump was a racist and misogynist.
BEHAR: I agree with that.
HAINES: Everyone swept. They swept every category. And the reason they did is to say, “hey guys, no excuses this time.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: Yeah.
BEHAR: There’s still half a country that doesn’t agree with him!
HOSTIN: A country that allows the environment to be ravaged, its children to be shot, its wealth to be hoarded, it’s workers to be exploited, its poor to starve, its cops to murder! It’s a country in trouble!
FARAH GRIFFIN: So, you think America's the problem?
HAINES: So, America is the problem and the voters of the problem?
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: Ana, hold it for the next segment. We'll be right back. Hold it.
