Trump's election is a rejection of liberal elitism

To the Editor:
Millions of American liberals were faced with a shocking reality in the wee hours of Wednesday morning when they realized that their next “chosen one” had been defeated in the Presidential election.
They were told for over a year that her coronation was a foregone conclusion. They received this information from the same sources that they always do, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Comedy Central, and from social media. They never thought for a moment that there may be other voices waiting to be heard, because those sources do not believe there are any other voices. They are the Upper East Side cocktail party people along with the Hollywood snobs who spend their sheltered lives pontificating on how the “little people” should live their lives. They are always all too happy to tell government how to spend other people's money (provided it's not theirs). How could we expect those millions of liberals to think that anything other than a Hillary Clinton victory was possible? We had to have our first black president (it mattered not if he had never run a hot dog stand, let alone a country). We had to have our first female president (it mattered not if she is an unindicted felon). That's what they were told and that's what they believed. Experience and character have little to do with it.
The results this election day have very little to do with Donald Trump (who is neither a conservative or an actual Republican). The results have everything to do with a complete rejection of an elitist President and a liberal media who scream “Racism!” every time someone has the nerve to call him out on his failed policies. Then along comes Hillary who ran as the third term of Obama and tried to convince America that his policies have been successful when in fact he has been an across the board failure on the economy, foreign policy, and his most famous disaster, Obamacare, which is dying a slow death even before Trump can attempt to repeal it.
This is a reminder of what New York film critic Pauline Kael said after Richard Nixon's 49th state victory in 1972, “I don't understand how he won, no one I know voted for him.” So to all the pompous liberals, leftist journalists, and Hollywood snobs, hopefully this election serves as a wake up call that there are millions of people in this country between Manhattan and Malibu and at least for one night, they stood up.
Richard Hartman
Milford