Anecdotal evidence is meaningless. The last survey I saw had Trumps approval among active military very high.

You’re joking, right? He has utterly failed at each of his last seven jobs, including three different national teams. Remember how awful his Mexico teams were?

I thought Deadspin would be excited about the decision. Finally an American sports team is going to reuse an old Arena.

“which would have been fine, we can laugh at ourselves”

What you don’t understand is it isn’t only Trump voters who disagree with you, or only conservatives, or only whatever other Other you hate so much: it’s 90, 95% of America. It’s me, an ardent Hillary supporter from “flyover country,” and just about every single liberal I know.

How dare a comedian not jump aboard the Correct Way to Think. What nerve!

And here we have the cult of outrage in a nutshell. The Op-Ed was a pretty thoughtful piece about ONE aspect as to why the Clinton ticket failed. You go on and write a whole piece about it ASSUMING how the man thinks. Which is what Colin points out when he says “do you you think all trump supporters voted for hate?”.…

Geez. We make fun of Trump for his thin skin but maybe we should, like, never do that again if a single joke at Democrats’ expense is going to generate 20 think pieces. Has the petition to have Jost fired and his fields sowed with salt been posted?

Identity Politics is what lost the Left this election.

“Jost is saying that liberals should deemphasize equal rights for all people.”

God Fucking Damn it.

Sorry, but Jost is 100% right, and adopting the right posture by being self-examining. Saying that Trump voters aren’t aware of Tinder is being deliberately obtuse. They are certainly aware of being called bigoted rednecks because of the liberal hyperstorm over North Carolina’s bathrooms. No one is in favor of…

It’s not that there shouldn’t be 37 different gender identities on Tinder. It’s that when someone asks WHY there should be 37 different gender identities on Tinder, the response shouldn’t be “FUCK YOU HOMOPHOBE!” but maybe it should be “Well, let me explain to you....”
If you demand empathy and respect, you have to…

It’s a fucking joke!! This reaction to a fucking joke is why Dems lost the election.

Oh no, a joke that might offend liberal sensibilities! The horror!

the whole point of your article is why Democrats got crushed in the election. Middle class white America (not just rednecks), thinks America is just becoming soft and too sensitive. It’s a turn off for a lot of men. Moral outrage was always reserved for the religious right and now liberals have claimed is as their…

this reaction to this joke is why democrats lost the election

You wrote, “which would have been fine, we can laugh at ourselves.” OK, then I don’t understand, if this is the case, why was everyone flipping out over the joke BEFORE he commented on it on twitter?

I don’t get the outrage on this one. It’s a joke.

“which would have been fine, we can laugh at ourselves”