Fox News host Sean Hannity downplayed Democrats’ trouncing of Republicans in the midterm elections on Monday, inviting critics to rake him for “spinning,” taking “copium” and denying reality.
“What stage of grief is this?” one viewer snidely asked.
Hannity earned the pushback with this sanguine take on his show:
“All right, here is a real civics lesson,” he announced. “Obama, Clinton, Ford, Reagan all suffered huge midterm losses. And guess what? Even as far back as Johnson, Eisenhower, FDR, midterm losses were greater than last week’s blue wave. In other words, what happened during this year’s midterms is not unprecedented. As a matter of fact, it’s kinda more normal than not.”
Hannity previously whitewashed the Democrats’ flipping of the House and Senate ― with the help of victories in red strongholds ― by saying, “History matters. Midterms are very, very predictable.”
But the “Trump bootlicking” host’s latest attempt to explain away the country’s firm rebuke of President Donald Trump, who had asked voters to choose as if he were on the ballot, really revved up his detractors.
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