We’ve all been there.
We get keyed up for a particular election cycle or candidate and do everything we can to help that person win their election. We get excited about polls showing that they can win. But then we end up being disappointed when the outcome on election night is not what we wanted to be.
Do we get sad or fume a bit about it? Sure, but most of us are able to go about our business the day after the election without letting the results ruin it.
Sadly, that wasn’t the case in the aftermath of last Tuesday’s election, which saw former President Donald Trump sweep all swing states on his path to victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. His victory made him only the second president in American history outside Grover Cleveland to win nonconsecutive terms in office.
Almost immediately, videos began to crop up on TikTok of leftist women screaming out loud in outrage, with some of them crying so hard you’d think they’d have lost a loved one. Others showed women in expletive-filled tirades, having a bottle of alcohol in one hand and a box of tissues in the other.
Some called for “sex strikes,” which they believe will punish men for the role they played in carrying Trump to victory. Some announced they were calling in sick to work that day and said they might even need to take the whole week off.
There were the women who called for Trump voters to be publicly identified and branded. And some women said they hoped the women who voted for Trump experienced complicated pregnancies or were sexually assaulted.
Perhaps most disturbingly, some women actually were talking about medicinal “solutions” to the so-called “man problem,” like giving them something to make it so they couldn’t reproduce — or giving them something that would ensure they never woke up.
Along those same lines were the ladies who coldly looked into the camera and made a plea for someone to attempt to assassinate Trump, something that had already been tried twice this year.
And while a lot of folks laughed at some of the deranged videos that were posted to TikTok, I got angry the more I watched them.
Because this is not normal.
I believe this is learned behavior, starting in the home where parents or guardians make excuses for children acting out (“Oh, they’re just kids!”) while letting their kids run wild.
It continues going into the public school system, where the valedictorian and salutatorian roles are discouraged in favor of participation trophies, and students who behave badly are given a pass because their parents pitched fits to school administrators.
Then there are our higher education institutions, where coddling wokesters and other self-important snowflakes by making sure they have safe spaces to insulate themselves from differing opinions is increasingly becoming more the rule than the exception.
All of that culminates into exactly the kind of warped responses to the election we’ve seen play out on social media since Trump won the presidential race.
Interestingly, as I watched the videos, the thought crossed my mind that prior to last Tuesday, some of these same women likely would have taken great offense at the suggestion that women act more on emotion than logic. Think about it.
That said, as I acknowledged earlier, losing an election is tough. But it’s not the end of the world.
I have a few pieces of advice for people who had these types of reactions: Get over it and grow the hell up. Oh, and maybe take a look at the actual Trump agenda rather than the one you’ve been conditioned to believe exists. You might be pleasantly surprised.
North Carolina native Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a media analyst and regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection.
