Donald Trump.
He’s back.
After the most dramatic election cycle in modern American history, Trump has won a sweeping victory, moving every single state in America in his direction from 2020. He didn’t just sweep the swing states. He only lost New Jersey by five points. He won Miami-Dade County in Florida — the first Republican presidential candidate to win the county since George H.W. Bush in 1988. He won 45% of the Hispanic vote. In several of the key swing states, he broke 40% with the Jewish vote. He won north of 20% of the Black male vote.
Trump grew his coalition in every single area.
Across the board.
So, what happened?
The answer has two components: first, Trump. And second, the Democratic Party and its apparatchiks in the media.
First, Trump. Trump is a unique figure.
He was one of the most famous people on earth before he ever ran for president. This made him immune to attempts to characterize him in overwrought fashion. Nobody truly believed Donald Trump was Hitler; after his first term, there was literally zero evidence that he would ever be. Yet Democrats continued to treat him as a threat to the very fabric of the republic, a would-be dictator hell-bent on seizing power and wielding it against his enemies. The attack didn’t land.
Trump also has magnetic charisma. It’s a sort of charisma that many Americans don’t understand: he rambles, he jokes, he says silly things. But he is absolutely himself, 100% of the time. He is the most authentic political candidate of our lifetimes. Americans trust him, despite his penchant for exaggeration and tall tales, because they know him.
And what’s more, Trump knows them, too. Trump has an innate love for the American people. When he dons an apron at a McDonald’s and serves fries, he’s not doing that because he wants Americans to believe that he’s suddenly a blue-collar fry cook. It’s because he wants them to know he likes and respects them. And that he likes and respects their values.
Which brings us to the Democratic Party and their propagandists in the media.
The story of the 2024 election isn’t about Kamala Harris. She is a nothingburger. She always was. She was never “joy” or “brat.” She is a career politician who has never won a vote outside of California. She was slotted into Joe Biden’s nomination because the sitting president physically expired on the debate stage. And she then proceeded to act as a fresh coat of paint on the battered jalopy of the Democratic Party record.
Americans saw through it. What Americans saw, instead of her celebrity-flecked candidacy of pseudo-excitement, was yet another iteration of the Democratic Party’s playbook: transgressive values disconnected from the traditional family values Americans like; a peculiarly insular view of the economy that believes a government handout can make up for expensive groceries and declining prospects; an arrogance rooted in the supposed superiority of a pseudo-intellectual self-appointed nobility — a nobility that scorns achievement and innovation in the name of luxury beliefs; an anti-American sense of our country’s history and role in the world.
Americans have been saddled with this Democratic playbook since the Obama era. And they hate it. That’s why Trump won in 2016. And it’s why Trump won again in 2024. Because while the left likes to proclaim that Trump isn’t normal, the reality is that their agenda isn’t normal. The form of normality they cherish is deeply abnormal. It runs counter to American notions of virtue and individual freedom, of property rights and American exceptionalism. Slathering platitudinous nonsense on that abnormality doesn’t render it more normal; it just renders it more dishonest.
And so the normies struck back. They said enough. They want the American dream — Hispanics in south Texas and white Americans in northern Ohio and Black voters in Wisconsin; Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Muslims.
It turns out the American dream is still alive in the hearts of Americans. We want our share of that dream. Even more, we want to dream that dream together.
That’s why Donald Trump is back. Because America is back.
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Yep. Trump never wavered in fighting and standing up for all the beaten down hard working Americans and exposing the Democrats and the “Deep State” for their never ending lies and “lawfare” against him AND us. But mostly they lost because Americans couldn’t imagine four more years of a completely open border that has almost destroyed the United States as a sovereign nation and let in terrorists, cartels, drug and sex traffickers and at least 600,000 known criminals, 12-14 million poor, unvetted and unvaccinated illegals and hundreds of thousands of illegals from countries that hate us. They lost because even though Kamala (like Biden) promised to be a “uniter” and move to the middle we knew she had a twenty year history of being for; no border, abolish ICE, government paid health insurance for illegals and even paying for illegals and even prisoners transgender surgeries, no bail, defund the police, gun confiscation, unlimited abortion and chemically castrating or permanently physically mutilating children in the name of “gender affirmation”. And she had a four year record of being border “Czar” and voting for every piece of government spending legislation including what Biden described as the biggest “Green Spending Bill” in American history. All out of control government spending that has caused cumulative inflation to rise 21% in the last four years, mortgage costs to rise to out of reach levels for most Americans and overall wages to decline. She lost because we are tired of seeing so-called “women” with dicks that are destroying women’s sports and being called “transphobic” and bigoted if we disagree. And she lost because anybody that disagrees with them is also misogynist, a racist, and now a fascist.
She lost because we didn’t want four more years of their foreign policy debacles with 190 billion of our taxpayer dollars for a never ending and unwinnable war in Ukraine that just might start WWIII. Or that world war might start in the middle east where they snub our strongest ally Israel and sent tens of billions to Iran who is the biggest state sponsor of Hamas and the Houthis and Hezbollah and terrorists around the world. And we didn’t forget that she was the “last person in the room” in their disastrous and embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan that blew to pieces 13 Americans and abandoned tens of billions of our finest military weapons and equipment to the Taliban.
That’s why she lost and it proves that the majority of Americans still have common sense and reject the propaganda and hate from the Democrats and their proxies in the mainstream media. Well, except for the coastal self righteous “elites”, out of touch and narcissistic Hollywood millionaires, the marxist and/or TDS infected Democrats, and the inculcated “Karens” whose only political idea is their belief in their “inalienable right” to unlimited abortions.
God Bless Trump and God Bless America!
“the sitting president physically expired on the debate stage” The phrasing on that cracks me up…. Appropriate because
American people will N.E.V.E.R. understand where Dems were for the three years prior. A blind mute could have seen and communicated the lack of lucidity of Joe Biden who was at best a mediocre performer in his younger days. Noone’s choice for part of a dream team especially when paired with Kamala who was his nemesis more than teammate.
I intend no profiling when I say Idn get how any Jewish person could support the left after Oct 7th and the apathy of our failed leadership in response to that tragic lack of humanity. But people are complicated.
I think it boiled down to common sense prevailing against insanity. I thank our heartland for having the sense so lacking on our country’s coastal regions along w. Colorado and New Mexico. I also thank Trump for so doggedly and assiduously fighting the forces of evil whose key players, once household names….now faded away like so much ash after the ascension of a phoenix. Go Donnie. Go America! This is such a wonderful thing, I wasn’t sure it could happen. We have a chance at normalcy. We have a chance to dream again.