Donald Trump is the 47th President of the United States. He won on the back of a no-nonsense campaign that addressed issues that hit Americans right at their very backyards. This proved effective against rival and Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris’s play of the gender and race cards backed by a who’s who of A-list celebrity endorsements. These elections all but served as an overdue indictment of the strategic orthodoxy stubbornly latched on to by the Democrats.
Victory was decisive. It was all over by the middle of the week with Trump claiming the votes of all the critical swing states. Trump proclaimed victory before a Florida crowd even before the results were officially announced: “I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president,” he crowed. This follows months of one poll or the other over the last several months claiming that the race was “neck-and-neck”. In the end, Trump won 292 electorates and did even better than how he did in his first run in 2020 in almost every state — a landslide by most measures.
The woke liberal crowd and their media henchmen committed the same mistake again, banking on hasty polls, basking in the light of the numerically-superior crowds they bussed into their rallies, and engaging in mutual high-fiving within their echo chambers. Polls and public rallies failed to reflect the sentiment of millions of voters who were disinclined to express their true political views publicly and in “polite” company. We can thank the wokes’ virulent cancel culture for that. They basically drove Trump’s support base underground and outside the lines of sight of their inbred political “analyses”.
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Ultimately, Harris’s campaign missed the mark by a mile. Voters were angry and battle lines were drawn were none used to be by the divisive messaging of the Democrats and their woke coastal following. A campaign on the back of “woman power” and “black power” failed to move a big enough number of voters. Americans did not care about being led by “the first female president” in their history. Being a woman — or, for that matter, a man — indeed has nothing to do with the quality of leadership.
Just as important is how the entertainment industry’s elite came out of all this utterly humbled. Their unsolicited political opinion pushed into Americans’ screens by complicit corporate media turned out to be irrelevant. It seems, at some point over the last several years, people worked out that pretty faces who lived in gated communities “sharing” their political views to fans were essentially insulting their intelligence.
It’s going to be another interesting four years ahead. Lessons will hopefully be learnt. Then again, maybe they won’t.
benign0 is the Webmaster of GetRealPhilippines.com.
America is now well & truly f*cked after this tRump disaster! He even wants to limit LEGAL immigration, so any Filipinos wanting to go to America legally had best do it soon.
And it wasn’t before President Trump became president? If the U. S. was in better shape during the Biden years, he’d still be president or Kamala Harris would be correct?
It is indeed a victory well deserved for Trump; he is indeed a born fighter, a natural diplomat and you can say also a peacemaker. Trump will be a welcome relief from all the wokeness, chaos, confusion, indifference and uncertainties that were triggered by these insensitive Democrats who prioritized mostly their supporters and not the American public in general. The Democrats, who made too much noise about inclusivity (to the extent of flaunting, as well as promoting promiscuous behaviour as well as distorted thinking that are grossly offensive to minors, especially among certain members of the LGBT community) instead ended up causing too much division and friction. And for all their hullabaloo about saving the environment, see how they have also failed, without any landmark policy on better eco-friendly measures–as well as the wars they support where the weapons they have sent to the so-called ‘friendly’ leaders they are supporting (Zelensky is one) had instead ruined the fragile ecological balance in that country. Lastly, with the Democrats being overconfident as being overly woke (no thanks to the celebrities and the mainstream media that had blindly supported them), see how Hubris has finally brought them down. Now Kamala Harris and her ilk will have a very bitter pill to swallow. Let us also never forget that Trump himself was a diplomat and a peacemaker–as he courageously did that landmark peace treaty with a formidable country, North Korea back in 2018. This is in stark contrast to the Democrats who, with all their wokeness and insensitivities to changing socio-economic and political shifts ushered in a period of belligerence–as epitomized by the Ukraine crisis and what is taking place in Israel under Netanyahu. Moreover, if you look on Trump’s victory on a more profound level, his winning has proven that the era of US celebrity endorsement of leaders is long dead! And, Trump’s triumph is a very, very big slap on the face of Kamala Harris–and the celebrities (as well as the mainstream media) who are full of wokeness who endorsed her.