WHY TRUMP WON
While the legacy media has a meltdown searching for hitherto undiagnosed psychoses in the electorate to explain its embrace of a Hitlerian strongman, the truth is much simpler than their fictions.
This election is a reminder that after all the manufactured drama and overheated rhetoric, politics is still about issues. Whether you agreed with him or not, Trump ran a substantive campaign based on issues like the border, inflation, crime, and war.
Harris ran on vibes, celebrity endorsements, name-calling (“convicted felon”, “fascist”), debunked hoaxes (“very fine people”), and platitudes (“democracy”). She would neither defend the Biden-Harris record nor say what she would do differently. When she did talk about specific issues, they were often stolen from Trump (child tax credit; no tax on tips; border funding).
On the one issue where Democrats had an advantage, abortion, Trump deftly got ahead of the issue by rejecting a national ban and removing problematic language from the GOP platform. Harris wore out the issue by blatantly lying about Trump’s position and by exhibiting her own party’s extremism (nobody needed to see an abortion truck at the DNC).
While Trump expanded his coalition with MAHA (health) and DOGE (government efficiency), Harris concluded her ersatz campaign by going all in on demonizing her opponent, pretending Madison Square Garden was a Nazi convention.
The fact that voters saw through it should be reassuring, even if you don’t agree with the result. Voters want to know how a candidate will give them a better life and, increasingly, they have learned to tune out the rest as noise.
While the legacy media creates excuses and impugns the motives of voters to explain why Trump won, the reason is simple: Trump is the candidate who spoke to voters’ concerns directly.
It’s the issues, stupid.
@libsoftiktok Listen my heart breaks for people who are hurting like this. They have been taught by culture that most of America hate them! That we are racist bigots. Now is our chance to stand up and show them the truth, that we are kind and loving and pro all Americans and America as a whole
fuck DEI
fuck your pronouns
fuck your woke agenda
fuck men in women's sports
fuck your open border
fuck your safe spaces
fuck your trigger warnings
fuck queers for Palestine
fuck defunding the police
fuck your dishonest MSM
fuck your bloated bureaucracy
fuck your war on merit
fuck your selective outrage
fuck your climate hypocrisy
fuck your big tech censorship
fuck your Tesla hating
fuck your debt forgiveness schemes
fuck your victimhood culture
fuck your manufactured crises
fuck your big government overreach
fuck your cancel culture mob
fuck your education indoctrination
fuck your performative activism
fuck your assault on free speech
fuck your surveillance state
fuck your anti-family policies
fuck your erosion of accountability
fuck your undemocratic primary process
and fuck your opportunity economy
TL;DR: GFY
Jake Tapper shocked by map that shows that Kamala Harris did not out perform Joe Biden in a single county:
Jake Tapper: "Holy smokes! Literally nothing? Literally not one county?"
Trump was the biggest winner tonight. Joe Biden 2nd biggest winner.
The University of Michigan wins a National Championship for the first time since 1997.
The Detroit Lions win a playoff game for the first time since 1991.
What a week.