Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore broke his silence concerning the 2024 election on Wednesday, lashing out at Individuals as “not a good people” for electing Donald Trump to a second time period by a large margin.
In contrast, the progressive director and activist supplied whole confidence earlier than the election, predicting Trump was “toast” in opposition to Vice President Kamala Harris.
“If you stop and think about it, we’ve come up with a lot of doozies in our history,” he wrote in a publish on MichaelMoore.com. “Like the genocide of 20 million Native Americans. Or the enslavement of 12 million kidnapped Africans. Or us invading Vietnam and killing 4 million Asian people for no reason at all. We are not a good people.”
After saying that America has a “laundry list of evil deeds that led us directly to last week,” he derided fellow residents for selecting “a 34-time convicted felon, a fascist, and a civilly-charged and convicted sexual abuser to be our 47th president of the United States.”
Moore’s present sentiments about Individuals are fairly the distinction to what he stated earlier than the election.
On November 3, two days earlier than the election, he appeared on MSNBC and cheered his fellow residents: “The majority of Americans do not want this divisiveness, they don’t want a threat of violence. We are okay to disagree with each other, but that’s where it ends.”
Portraying Individuals as largely an easygoing bunch, the filmmaker continued, “We go to vote, who wins, wins. Half the time, I have been very happy with who has won, and the other half of the time, I haven’t been. And we move on with our lives.”
He confidently predicted on MSNBC that Trump was “toast,” saying of Trump’s supporters: “I think they are going to be very surprised – I’m talking about the Trump people and the MAGA nation – by what is going to happen on Tuesday.”
“I feel the same way that I felt a few weeks ago, that Trump is toast, absolutely. I feel it more now.”
In October, he mocked, “Democrats, they’re such a frightened group of people,” telling a CNN host, “I mean, they still think that Trump is going to win.”
However in his post-election critique on MichaelMoore.com, the director chided Democrats and the Harris marketing campaign: “It’s possible that history may be kinder to us if, next time, the working class doesn’t see our candidate campaigning with Wall Street billionaires. Or having to watch the campaign celebrate being endorsed by war criminals.”
Moore concluded by calling for kindness: “The first step in counteracting Trump’s crusade of cruelty, hatred, bigotry, misogyny, ignorance and fear is for each of us, in our daily lives, to be kind.”
The director additionally requested his supporters to “forgive someone.” With out naming names, he added, “Just because you know you should. Because it’s been too long. Because it’s the right thing to do.”
