Elizabeth Warren Concedes That All Trump Voters Aren't Knuckle-Dragging Bigots

November 11th, 2016 8:30 PM

Now that they're slightly less shell shocked after their world was flipped upside down and shaken on that extended downer of an election night, liberals appear to be taking stock of the sobering new reality confronting them.

An example of this was evident on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show last night when Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, odds-on favorite to lead Democrats post-Hillary, decided it no longer serves any purpose in publicly insulting Trump's supporters regardless of her actual opinions about them.

Winning back those voters is imperative if Democrats can ever regain that much-touted Electoral College lock they took for granted once too often --

WARREN (after theatrical sigh): What happened on Tuesday, we could let our country head in that direction, in the direction that Donald Trump offered in his campaign to lead us. Or we could say, we are a better people than that.

Give the woman credit, she's already heaved "that's not who we are" overboard. It won't be missed --

WARREN (another sigh): We have a right to be heard (alluding to rent-a-mob anti-Trump protesters) but we also have an obligation to listen.

MADDOW (wondering where Warren is going with this): Hmm ..

WARREN: You know, part of what happened on Tuesday is what Donald Trump offered up with this kind of toxic stew of bigotry, but there were millions of people across this country who voted for him not because of that bigotry, but in spite of that bigotry. (Did an off-camera Maddow say "that's very true" in response?)

WARREN: There are millions of people across this country who voted for him because they are angry about what's happening in this country, because they are worried about what's happened in this country, and because they are hopeful that he is someone who will come in and break a system that is not working for them. It's not working for them economically, it is not working for them politically.

You know, the way I understand this election, is that the American people voted for significant change. This economy is working for a slice at the top (that Warren is clearly untroubled to inhabit) and it's leaving everybody else in the dirt! People hanging on by their fingernails. And this political system is working for a slice of those at the top and shutting everybody else out. The American people want to see change. Our job now is to try to give some direction to that change, to force that change in a way that not only opens up for more and more families, but that helps us build a future that works not just for some of our kids but a future that works for all of our kids.

"Opens up for more and more families" -- uh, opens up what ...? It's when you transcribe what Warren says that it's most apparent she talks much and says little.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ...  where have I heard this tune before? Meet the new would-be boss, same as the old farce.

It's one thing for Warren to flatter Trump's voters by saying, heck, you aren't so bad, aside from the racist, sexist xenophobes you insist on harboring. Next up she praises -- Trump himself! An amazing week keeps getting better --

WARREN: You know, Donald Trump did prove that he can listen to the American people. He proved that. He didn't listen to all of them. He didn't get the majority of votes (nor did Clinton) but he listened on (huh?) the economic pain that a lot of Americans are feeling. He listened on the anxiety that a lot of Americans feel. Our job is to make sure our voices get heard. He said he would be president of all the people. Then let's hold him to it and let's help him do it. (Here comes the caveat). And let's make it clear what that doesn't include, and where it is, we will fight him every step of the way.

Not once -- not twice -- but three times, Warren credits Trump as a great listener. What's more, Trump "proved" he can listen. And since Warren used to teach at Harvard Law, she knows proof when she sees it.

But what's most remarkable about Warren's praise for Trump is what it implies but his opponent --  the first female presidential nominee of a major party, you may recall, and one we kept getting told was ... a great listener! Recall, for example, that Clinton began her campaign for the Senate in New York back in 2000 -- with a listening tour. Which she did again -- when Clinton launched her campaign for president in 2015. If someone is really such a good listener, does she have to keep reminding us?

Added bonus -- Warren touting Trump as listener extraordinaire after a campaign when he was vociferously derided as a sexist predatory pig. Albeit one who feels your pain.