The mainstream media are nothing if not a predictable lot. That’s something we’ve seen play out since DOGE got to work doing what Donald Trump and Elon Musk pledged the department would do months before Trump was elected to his second term.
News outlets driven by Democrat narratives have flooded the airwaves and their print and online publications with stories about federal workers who lost their jobs. Along with those job losses, they say, is the “inconvenience” that will allegedly be caused to Americans as a result of the changes that are being made, even though in a lot of cases that inconvenience can be boiled down to acts of malicious compliance.
More recently, we’ve seen the MSM go about exploiting some of those workers by taking their claims of voting for Trump as the gospel truth.
Two weeks ago, for instance, Business Insider interviewed people who said they had supported Trump’s campaign but who either had been fired or feared they would be:
BI spoke to 10 current and former federal workers, offering some anonymity to speak freely without retribution. Some who are still employed said they voted for Trump with the hopes that he would deliver on his campaign promises, but the constant threats to their careers and villainizing of their coworkers have led them to regret it.”I feel betrayed. This is not what I wanted, to let everybody lose their job,” a Veterans Affairs employee who voted for Trump twice told BI. “You’re fired. You’re fired. You’re fired. This is not ‘The Apprentice.'”Others said they continue to support Trump and his mission to cut government waste. The overwhelming message was that they did not cast a vote for Musk.”I don’t like Elon Musk,” a VA employee said. “I don’t want him meddling into my business. He’s not the president. Trump is.”
This past week, CNN interviewed two former Bureau of Fiscal Service employees from West Virginia who said they had been Trump supporters as well. One claimed she was fired, while the other one said she resigned before she could potentially be let go:
Speaking to CNN Live in a broadcast shown Thursday, [Jennifer] Pigott said she cried after she was axed. “I was a MAGA junkie, a MAGA junkie who thought her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office. I cried. It’s scary, you know, it’s a really scary thing, and I was embarrassed,” she said.[…]“I expected better from you. I really did,” Pigott said, when asked what she would say to Trump if she got the chance. “I expected that you would do what was right and cut waste and fraud and all of those things that you promised us before we elected you in office, but you’re not doing that—you’re creating a disaster and I don’t know what America is gonna look like if this continues.”
Here’s what the other woman, who didn’t want her face shown on camera, told CNN:
“I’m not sure that I would have [voted for Trump], and the way that it’s been done… I’m for balancing the budget, that type of thing, but not, not in this context, it’s just not right,” she said.
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I’m trying to understand how people can say they supported cutting waste and fraud, balancing the budget, etc, but didn’t expect that part of that would involve a shrinking of the federal workforce.
In any event, a month ago, the Washington Post looked into social media stories of Trump voters allegedly regretting their votes and found that there wasn’t much “there” there:
The short answer is that polls suggest it’s not a major phenomenon — even though some discontent is brewing and Trump’s overall numbers have declined.Two recent polls have gotten at this question rather directly and found that a pretty unremarkable number of Trump supporters are expressing measures of regret.
They did try to keep hope alive, however, that maybe there was something they were missing:
While these data are more quantitative than focus groups and are certainly more reliable than social media anecdotes, they do carry limitations.The big limitation is the margins of error.
Sadly for the WaPo, the numbers still aren’t backing up any claims about any supposed groundswell of Trump supporters who are wishing they hadn’t voted for him, as revealed by CNN data guru Harry Enten last week:
Wowsers. Talk about a narrative buster.
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