Historian lashes out at ‘disinformation’ on Fox News, X for Kamala’s loss, failure of his prediction

Lichtman explained how his predictions were so inaccurate in a segment with host Chris Cuomo on NewsNation. “As I said, things could go wrong. There could be unprecedented events that change the pattern of 160 years of history. That’s what happened here.”

Lichtman said one of those unprecedented events was “disinformation. We’ve always had disinformation, but disinformation has exploded to an unprecedented degree.” He insisted that even “grievances” that drove the election were in turn driven by disinformation.

“Starts with Fox News and conservative media, conservative podcasters with tens of millions of views, but we’ve seen something brand new this time. The 300-billionaire Elon Musk putting his thumb on the scales through his control of X, formerly Twitter. It’s been reported that his misinformation has had billions, literally billions of views, and this has spread to every aspect of this election,” Lichtman said.

Whether disinformation or misinformation, Lichtman said it was everywhere during this election cycle. “There was misinformation about everything about the economy. Inflation, jobs, unemployment, the stock market, growth. There was vast disinformation about undocumented immigrants,” the historian declared, dismissing the very notion that some illegals were “killers who are out to get you” as he argued that “undocumented immigrants are the most law-abiding segment of our society.”

Lichtman said that President-elect Donald Trump unleashed “dark” forces in American society “to an unprecedented degree in this election. I’m talking about racism, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, with a woman of color being a particular target.”

Host Cuomo appeared unbelieving. “The Democrats lost because they underperformed,” he said. “They misread the main motivators for the voters and they underperformed. Black women pulled a heavy, heavy load for the Democrats again, but they couldn’t overcome Black men, Latino men, Latino women, married women.”

Lichtman responded with his own dark imagery of the future. “When I was a kid, I read these science fiction books. You know, the premise was a few mega-rich people were able to control society,” said Lichtman. “Well, we’re not all that far from it and I am sounding the alarm.”