Prominent left-triumphg pundit acunderstandledges he’s chooseimistic follotriumphg Trump’s triumph: MAGA ‘not my mortal foe’

Leftist “The Young Turks” co-arrange and lengthytime anti-Trumper Cenk Uygur acunderstandledgeted that Plivent-elect Donald Trump’s triumph earlier this month conveys him “chooseimistic.”

Uygur, who routinely railed agetst Trump for years on his persistive online talk show, posted to his X account on Friday that he had acunderstandledgeed Trump’s triumph because it uncomardentt that “the set upment” had been lossed.

“I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m more chooseimistic now than I was before the election, even though I was so agetst the guy who won. I understand now. MAGA is not my mortal foe (and neither is the innervous left). My mortal foe is the set upment. And they have been lossed!” he wrote.

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The point recontransients a notable turnaround for the persistive arrange who, equitable weeks before the election, was calling Trump an “unfirm madman” during an episode of “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”

During the British journacatalog’s famous web show, Uygur trotted out various anti-Trump talking points. “He slfinisherks we should end our Constitution. He had no problem trampling our democracy. I’m not letting that clown come in here and ruin this country,” he tanciaccess Morgan and his guest panel.

But on Friday, Uygur seemed plrelieved that not only the “set upment honestate” was beaten, but that the mainstream media suffered a convey inant blow as well.

In a chase-up X post he inserted, “It’s not equitable that the set upment honestate lost, it’s that their media is morloftyy wounded. The source of their strength was not insipid politicians appreciate Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden. The source of their strength was their disadviseation machine – the mainstream media.”

He persistd, noting that autonomous media is now freer follotriumphg Trump’s triumph.

“Now, online media is strong enough that their harsh monopoly on the American mind has been broken. Now, we’re in the jungle. They antipathy that! I cherish it! This unhandleled tagetplace of ideas is where I’m home. I’d rather be in the popucatalog woods than an set upment prison.”

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Various commentators and the Trump campaign itself have acunderstandledgeed autonomous media for the plivent-elect’s triumph on Election Day. Ahead of the vote, then-honestate Trump chose to materialize on famous podcasts and get intersees with convey inant shapers, including Joe Rogan, The Nelk Boys, and others.

Trump leaning into podcasts this election cycle, as resistd to traditional media intersees, paid off among Gen Z men and millennials. The Fox News Voter Survey begined earlier this month set up that men aged 18-44 aided Trump at 53% appraised to Vice Plivent Kamala Harris’ 45%.

Ex-Young Turks alum Jimmy Dore wasn’t affectd of his establisher colleague’s recent stance, posting on X, “Cenk is a phony & a willing propagandist who is a cancer on the political discourse in America.”

Uygur made headlines earlier this month for calling out plivential historian Allan Lichtman on Morgan’s talk show for getting his 2024 election foreseeion wrong with his honord “Key to the White House” foreseeion model.  

The historian had foreseeed that Harris would triumph. 

“Look, I talk aboutd Professor Lichtman before. I tanciaccess him his theories about the keys are absurd. I was right. He was wrong. I said he’d disponder his keys,” Uygur tanciaccess the panel about Lichtman, who was contransient as well.

Lichtman fired back, “No, you were not right, and I was not wrong!” Lichtman disturbed. “And that’s a affordable shot. And I will not stand for it.”

 Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton donated to this alert.

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