‘Shut the F*ck Up!’ NY Times’ Ezra Klein Blasts People Blaming Fox News for Trump Win in Stunning Rant

New York Times columnist and progressive commentator Ezra Klein blasted liberals who downplay voter concern about the “economy” and “crime” as “all just Fox News” spin, telling Democrats to get out and “talk to some people.”

Klein was speaking on Pod Save America podcast when he delivered his explainer of President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral win coupled with a stunning rebuke of liberal dismissal of the key issues as right-wing media fear mongering.

This idea that, like: ‘Oh, no, the economy is actually good or crime is actually down.’ This is all just Fox News. Like, shut the fuck up with that! Like, talk to some people who live near you.

Instead, he made the case that reporting on inflation and immigration was right on the pulse. After moving to New York and hearing people’s “rage” and “sense of disorder rising” he said that he was surprised “least” by the “sharp red shift” in major cities.

I come from outside Los Angeles. I lived in San Francisco until 18 months ago. And I live in New York City. The thing that surprised me least about the election was the sharp red shift in these big cities. Because if you just talk to anybody who lives in them, they are furious…

The rage I just hear from people in New York, this is partially [Texas Governor] Greg Abbott busing huge amounts of migrants here. But that does mean, by the way, there are enough migrants that Greg Abbott could bus actual human bodies to New York City. And it was a big enough problem that New York City was not able to effectively deal with it. Right? It does show that what was going on on the border was much worse.

I think the Democrats were letting themselves accept for all the cruelty of what Abbott did there. That was not like an ad campaign. Those were like actual people who would come into the country who were overwhelming border states. The sense of disorder rising, right?

Not just crime, but homeless encampments, trash on the streets, people jumping turnstiles in subways, crazy people on the streets. You just talk to people and they’re mad about it. They feel it’s different than it used to be. I mean, in San Francisco, like, the fury is overwhelming.

He continued, detailing how the voter backlash was being felt across all electoral levels.

You see that it’s not just the presidential level. London Breed, the SF mayor, just lost reelection. In Oakland, they recalled the mayor. A bunch of the progressive DAs across the country were recalled or beaten in reelection. If [New York City mayor] Eric Adams has a lot of problems, but if he were obviously on the ballot, he would almost certainly, it seems to me, lose.

Rounding again on those still dismissing issues that voters insist are relevant, Klein argued that citizens were informed by their lived experience and not the analysis of “a bunch of economists” telling them that they’re wrong.

You have to be able to govern well. People don’t follow politics, but they live in the place they live. They see if prices have gone way up. And a bunch of economists telling them ‘No, no, no, don’t worry about the price of everything… for some people, and maybe net-net a slight majority of people, real wages have modestly outpaced inflation’ is like not going to do it because people feel when they get a raise, that’s them [having earned it]. And when prices are going up, that’s [the fault of] you, the government.

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