Though liberals across the country are doing their best to deny it, Tuesday's election represented to many a political shift the likes of which the United States has not seen in decades.
One prominent voice who has not only acknowledged the nation's realignment but seemingly also welcomed it is filmmaker and former teen star Justine Bateman, who declared, as Breitbart reports, that the “Woke Party” has earned its place in the “American political graveyard.”
Considering her noteworthy Hollywood pedigree, which took root in the 1980s with her role in the hit series Family Ties, Bateman's recent declarations on the state of American politics may have come as a surprise to many.
However, it was not long after Donald Trump's landslide election win that Bateman began to reveal her thoughts on the political climate that prevailed during the Biden-Harris administration.
“Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years,” Bateman wrote on X, adding that the last four years were, to her, “an almost intolerable period” in which “any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of 'permitted positions' in order to assess acceptability.”
Bateman went on, “Complete intolerance became almost a religion and one's professional and social life was threatened almost constantly. Those that spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others."
“When you starve a society of those called to be independent thinkers and cultural and intellectual innovators, you rob that society of any forward movement,” she observed, further declaring, “I am neither one extreme or the other, but am one of the millions of people who believe in common sense, and that everyone should be free to live their lives however they want, unless that freedom interferes with someone else's freedom to live their own life. That's it.”
A day later, Bateman returned to X to weigh in on what she hopes will be the far-reaching impact of Tuesday's election.
“In 2020, the Democratic Party was overthrown by the Woke Party. And the Woke Party has run the country for the past four years. It produced negative results” she noted.
In an expression of relief, Bateman went on, “That experiment is over. The Woke Party can take its place in the American Political graveyard with the Whigs and the Federalists.”
Adding a satirical twist to her biting critique of the left's sway in recent years, Bateman undertook a series of online reviews of social media meltdowns posted by supporters of Kamala Harris in the wake of her defeat.
Picking apart the video posts from a writing and filmmaking standpoint, Bateman's approach offered a jocular yet poignant commentary on the hyperbolic rhetoric that flowed in the wake of Trump's victory.
Bateman also took a moment to respond to recent comments from California Gov. Gavin Newsom calling for a special legislative session designed to “Trump-proof” the Golden State.
“Dude, look at the election results from 5 days ago, federal and local, CA is not interested in any more of your nonsense,” Bateman said, and it seems clear that large swaths of America emphatically agree.
