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.