Leftist filmmaker Michael Moore recently labeled the United States as “not a good people” after the results of President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 presidential election. Drawing on infamous moments in American history, Moore suggested that the election of Trump was not surprising, echoing leftist alarmism toward the president-elect.
“If you stop and think about it, we’ve come up with a lot of doozies in our history,” Moore began in his essay. “Like the genocide of 20 million Native Americans. Or the enslavement of 12 million kidnapped Africans. Or us invading Vietnam and killing 4 million Asian people for no reason at all. We are not a good people,” he added.
Moore continued, “We have a non-stop cavalcade, a sordid laundry list of evil deeds that led us directly to last week, to the point where we the people, by popular vote, elected a 34-time convicted felon, a fascist, and a civilly-charged and convicted sexual abuser to be our 47th president of the United States. And we did so after he clearly and quite honestly warned us that he was going to do a mass round-up and deportation of nearly 15 million people. And that he would consider executing people he referred to as “the enemy within” (i.e. his political opponents and those who were disloyal to him).”
Moore also voiced criticism toward the Democratic Party and the tactics of the Kamala Harris campaign that proved insufficient in winning American voters. “It’s possible that history may be kinder to us if, next time, the working class doesn’t see our candidate campaigning with Wall Street billionaires. Or having to watch the campaign celebrate being endorsed by war criminals,” he said.
“And not having our side enthusiastically funding and arming the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent women, children and elderly in a land we call “Holy” in the months leading up to an election where we are seeking to defeat someone who “admires” Hitler’s generals,” the filmmaker said. “Oh — and we commit to getting just 1% more of our people who voted with us last time, to vote with us next time.”
However, during an appearance just before the election, Moore had expressed confidence that Harris would decisively defeat Trump. “The majority of Americans do not want this divisiveness, they don’t want a threat of violence. We are okay to disagree with each other, but that’s where it ends,” he said. “We go to vote, who wins, wins. Half the time, I have been very happy with who has won, and the other half of the time, I haven’t been. And we move on with our lives,” he added.
Moore was confident prior to the election that hat Trump was “toast,” stating, “I think they are going to be very surprised – I’m talking about the Trump people and the MAGA nation – by what is going to happen on Tuesday.” He asserted, “I feel the same way that I felt a few weeks ago, that Trump is toast, absolutely. I feel it more now.”
Moreover, throughout Moore’s essay, he offered remedies for liberals coping with the results of the election. For example, the filmmaker urged readers to demonstrated kindness and forgiveness. “Forgive someone,” Moore said. “Just because you know you should. Because it’s been too long. Because it’s the right thing to do. You will give this person a sense of redemption and they are likely to do the same for others. It will make you feel better about yourself. It will eliminate stress inside you from the simple act of letting go. The release itself will create its own healing. And the example you set will bring more forgiveness in the family and community around you,” he added.
Watch “The View” react to Trump’s cabinet picks below:
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