Season 54 Episode 87 of Days of our Lives is the Reason Trump Won

Spoiler alert! If you want to watch the show and are not caught up then I suggest that you do not read past this point.

After watching season 54 episode 87 of Days of Our Lives, I am convinced that Trump will win again in 2020. In 2016, the left’s smugness was a huge factor in Trump’s victory. This episode of Days of Our Lives may be even worse than season 52 episode 26 which convinced me in 2016 that Trump would win the election.

For the people who do not care about spoilers I will provide a little background to explain how this episode illustrates the self-righteousness of the left. The big reveal in Season 54 episode 87 of Days of Our Lives concerns Haley Chen. In fact, Haley Chen’s entire story arc has been soaked in leftist cliches and virtue signaling.

A couple months ago, Haley Chen joined the show as an employee at University Hospital who JJ, one of the shows leads, found unconscious after a near overdose from a suicide attempt.

JJ told Haley that he also struggled with depression after shooting Theo Carver while working as a police officer because Theo was breaking into a warehouse. Theo was with Kate, who worked in the warehouse, and JJ falsely assumed that Theo had a weapon. Theo, a black man, was in a coma as a result of this shooting.

In season 54 episode 87 of Days of Our Lives, it was revealed that the reason that Haley Chen was trying to commit suicide was because she’s an illegal immigrant. The suicide was the reason that the audience felt sympathy for Haley in the first place and felt the chemistry between JJ and Haley because of their shared traumas. We were emotionally attached to Haley Chen for half a year before the writers finally decided to slap every conservative fan in the fan in the face. The writers were clearing attempting to show how “woke” they are by making Haley Chen an illegal immigrant.

It would be interesting tv if Haley’s criminality was a source of guilt for her and that was the reason that she was trying to kill herself, but no. She felt “marginalized” and her only guilt was because she was worried that her secret would ruin her mother’s mayoral campaign in Salem.

This episode, while especially angering to me, only scratches the surface of Hollywood indoctrination. The real reason for this article is to make a broader point about liberal talking points infesting our TV screens. For example, in season 48 episode 70 Mimi Lockhart had an abortion. While this is angering in its own right, she kept the abortion a secret from her boyfriend, Rex. Their relationship was doomed from the start, due mostly to Rex’s anger issues (Mimi even thought he could have been the Salem Stalker!), and the secret abortion caused Rex to leave Mimi when he found out. This made Rex the bad guy and Mimi the sympathetic character, despite the fact that she murdered her child.

Days of Our Lives used to be an escape from politics. It used to be something that we could talk about at work or with our families. But now I can’t even bring up Days of Our Lives at thanksgiving without provoking an argument. What is our escape from this polarization now? What are we supposed to watch together, to discuss, to bond over.

It’s not that they have bad or lazy writers. In fact, my Days of Our Lives spec scripts have all been rejected and they are much better than all of the episodes in the last few seasons. The showrunners would not accept well written episodes handed to them on a silver platter because they were filled with conservative and traditional family values.

Maybe this is a good thing because maybe it means that the writers are scared of us. However, it could also be arrogance and self-rightiousness that’s fueling the leftist takeover of Days of Our Lives. The best we can hope for is that this smug leftism that’s taken over Days of Our Lives will make people reject liberalism in the same way that they rejected liberalism in 2016. At the moment though, I’m just going to rewatch seasons 1–45.