Recently, The New York Times reported on its front page that a certain Richard Spencer, self-proclaimed leader of the alt-right movement, thrilled a gathering of about 200 young men, by using neo-Nazi language in support of the recent election of President-elect Donald Trump.

The underlying idea for many is that because a number of these men clearly have neo-Nazi sympathies, Donald Trump himself is a Nazi, a fascist, a Hitler type and the over 60 million Americans who voted for him are of course fascists, racists or neo-Nazis.

Several of my staunchly liberal pro-Hillary Harvard classmates, still in shock from the Donald’s unexpected victory – unexpected to them, but totally obvious to me from well over a year ago – tagged me on Facebook with this article as if to say: See, I told you so. Trump is a very bad man. America is becoming Nazi Germany.

My response: You clueless, arrogant, smug elitist liberal Democrats. You never learn and you will never learn. This was so predictable. Haven’t we seen this movie before?

During the campaign, Clinton and the mainstream press called Trump and his millions of American supporters sexist, racist, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Islamophobic, a basket of deplorables and fascists.

The more Hillary called her fellow Americans these names, the more they reacted against her and the entire biased liberal press.

The more liberals criticize President-elect Trump as a Nazi or Hitler-type and his supporters – American citizens – as Nazis or neo-Nazis and his many Jewish, black, Hispanic, Islamic and minority non-white supporters as white supremacists, the more popular Trump will become and the more irrelevant and reviled the whole mainstream press will become.

Recent polls have President-elect Trump at a 46% approval rating. That's just a few points lower than the supposedly more popular current lame duck president.

An April 2016 American survey confirmed only 6% of Americans have great trust in the media. 60% have little trust in the media. I suspect as a result of the biased reporting of this election by the mainstream press, the approval number is lower and the lack of trust number is far higher.

Trump is brilliantly side-stepping the mainstream press. He is cutting out the middle man.

Trump is now going to over 20 million people directly on Twitter and now on YouTube, to millions of Americans, he announced what he will do on his first day of office.

The mainstream press is trapped and imprisoned in a Twilight Zone-like bubble and echo chamber from which they cannot escape.

For the next eight years, perhaps 16 years, liberals and Democrats will be trapped in this echo chamber babbling to themselves, while the rest of America on the outside carries on and thrives and prospers.

Cue the scary Twilight Zone music, hit it, Rod Serling: “You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.”

Mitch Wolfe is the author of “Trump: How He Captured the Trump White House” published in September and available at Amazon.com

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