Political Post-Mortem

First I will say God Blessed America.  Yes, you read that correctly.  We're blessed with a leader who, despite his flaws, loves this country.  We, and he, have dodged a bullet.  Last Tuesday things went the way I hoped, the way I prayed, the way this country needed them to go, - all of it, even the half that doesn't realize it, and we have avoided an agenda that appeared to be focused on anything but America First.  More like America last.  I commented on Sarge's post-election post that I've been putting together a post-mortem on what happened to the VP's campaign and why she was so thoroughly defeated.  So here goes with some observations and an assessment on what happened.

1. Middle America no longer trusts the press. 

That's not a new revelation.  The trust in them has been withering for several years, probably starting back during the Bush Admin when the left began a unwavering campaign of hate, and the media abandoned whatever sense of fairness and journalistic integrity it once had.  It got worse during COVID, and them parroting the lies that Big Pharma, the FDA, and the left threw at us, making them all suspect, and part of a leftist cabal, from then on.  So when they echo the lies, broadcast the hate (Nazi, Racist, Bigot, Misogynist) we see it for what it is- a tactic to damage a former President, a current candidate, and someone at least half the country wants to rehire.  

On that note, Social Media and podcasts are the new Main Stream Media - it has allowed a wider range of voices that are able to be heard above multi-million dollar media and political campaigns.  Social Media is asymmetric warfare, the IED or tiny drone against a Humvee or tank.  Which is why they want to control it against the bogus threat of misinformation.

2. Middle America is tired of the coastal woke elitist agenda that they spout from their ivory towers.  Struggling people don't care about gender fluidity, DEI, protecting 3rd trimester abortions, green agendas, or bogus white collar charges and convictions, when all they really want is an answer to how their real problems will be fixed.    

3. Minorities are fed up with the oppression caused by the so-called "progressive" mindset.  For the most-part they know they are being pandered to.  They didn't ask for, or need white liberal women creating terms like Latinx.   And the ones that just keep their head down and work hard, don't want to be told that they're being held back by systemic racism.  That their white friends and neighbors have some sort of inherent privilege unafforded to them, and that the only way they can succeed is by being labeled a victim and given handouts. 

4. Pollsters are laughable.  Polling is highly inaccurate- either too small of a focus group, too focused in a location with inherent biases or in Dem strongholds, or just wrong.  People don't always want to say when they support a certain side, a candidate, or an issue.  We're free to, and essentially forced to, keep our opinions private, especially when the opposing side has proven to be angry, retaliatory, and often absolutely unhinged.  I supported Trump, but my car was keyed in 2020 with a Trump sign in my window, even in my polite and relatively affluent neighborhood.  The fact that the vote so heavily favored Trump, including the popular vote, shows just how much the polls were wrong, or the media picks and chooses what they tell us.

5.  The left provided no real vision, no plan, or what they stand for.  No slogan to get behind or support- only "We're not Trump."  Their actions seemed frenetic, disparate, desperate, and reactionary, vice clear, concise and inspiring.  MAGA is a slogan helping people remember what was good, how things have been in the past, but the left tried to use it as a slur.  That either offended or alienated those that want a better America once again.  "We're not Trump" was not enough when people are faced with real problems, problems the anti-Trumpers were heavily responsible for.

6.  They can't "read the room."  Kamala and the Democrats refused to step into the shoes of the average American, or come down to their level, which Trump did consistently, including some political stunts that showed he cared (garbage truck and fry cook).  They refused or were unable to understand just how bad things are.  Media, pundits, the DNC- they're all paid well, and they aren't hurting like real Americans.  Their ivory towers are too high to see the struggle or feel the pain every American is experiencing with the higher and higher costs of living.

7.  Defections made a difference.  When many "Never-Trumpers" became red-pilled, when they saw how they were treated by the left when they refused to keep drinking the kool-aid and they went against the narrative, they changed.  I'm talking about Trump's new friends in J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, RFK Jr., LTC Tulsi Gabbard, and Joe Rogan.  These are significant voices that have clout, followers, and respect.  So when they came around it was noticed by the public and made an impact- increasing the understanding of what Trump meant to people, how his positions are actually fairly moderate, and this increased the level of respect afforded him and Republicans, and that maybe we're not all uncaring evil rich people.  There are also some other former critics like Ana Kasparian from the Young Turks who unleashed her disgust for what she now sees as liberal intolerance.  The Teamsters, Jeff Bezos and the NY Times, dozens of other papers all either backing Trump or shockingly refusing to back Harris were more huge rocks in the pond.  Several Hollywood stars have also come out in support.  They now realize how Republicans have been unfairly characterized and they've dropped their disdain for the right.

8.  The Border.  Not much more needs to be said.  It's wide open, crime is rampant, tax dollars are paying the criminal invaders quite handsomely, all while people are hurting.  When the Dems refused to back a bill banning illegals from voting, the veil was shattered.  Americans know it was all a plot to increase votes for the left.

9.  11th hour reveals or October surprises were seen as desperate attempts of a failing campaign.  A disgraced former General and staffer claiming Trump wanted Nazi generals, resurrecting old and debunked "suckers and losers" accusations, Walz linking a Madison Square Garden rally to a Nazi rally there almost a century ago, telling women to lie to their husbands about voting for Kamala (as if they would beat their wives if they didn't vote for Trump) all smacked as weak attempts to gain support.  

10.  Poll watchers.  Elon's $100 million per day pledge to keep the vote secure probably prevented the election shenanigans, aka felony election interference, that happened in 2020.  Yes, that's the political 3rd rail accusation, but I don't believe their gas lighting for a second.  Biden getting 82 million votes when he didn't even campaign is laughable.  That's almost 20M more than previous elections.  See the video below- 48:10 mark if it doesn't start there.  I know I'm not the only one who believes this.  The fact that there were many actual videos of ballot harvesting, when they stopped the count and kicked everyone out, yet still continued counting, a supposed watermain leak, the immediate spike in the vote for Biden at 2am, the never-explained nor investigated video of a woman pulling ballots out from under a table, are all damning circumstantial evidence imho.

  From the video- Joe Rogan's epiphany moment:

“Look at the difference in how many people voted for Biden in 2020. It's unprecedented! It's way higher than any other time since 2012.”

“Look at where the number is. It's all like 65 million [votes for Dems in 2012, 2016, and 2024]. So that is all the same every f—king time except 2020. In 2020, it goes way the f—k up.”

And probably the most significant factor: 

11.  Kamala Harris was just a bad candidate.  Everyone knew she was a DEI or Nepo-ish pick everywhere she's been- from law school, San Francisco city hall, California's AG, Senate and VP- all examples of her failing up.  She was not chosen by the people, she was hand picked by a deaf, dumb, and blind DNC, in a coup planned by soon to be former power brokers (Pelosi, Obama, Shumer) leading the charge.  Apparently Democracy was at such risk that they had to cancel it this election season.  

While there may have been a big DEI push going on in the country the past several years, America is a country based on merit- if you want something, you better damn well earn it.  She didn't even try.  Her interviews were eye-opening and embarrassing, no prep whatsoever, she overly relied on a friendly MSM to go easy on her.  She didn't have the intellectual rigor to handle questions that her team should have known would be asked.  And when asked basic questions about her policies, such as how she'd reduce inflation, she showed that she didn't even understand the basics about the problems America was facing.  She backstopped an 80-something year old doddering President for 4 years!  They should have been prepping her for the very real possibility that he might not make it to the finish line, even if they weren't planning on her running for his spot.

Some questions for the next four years-  Will the left, the DNC, the Dem politicians come to some realization about these points?  Will they wake up and do some soul searching?  I'm thinking not likely.  This is a post-mortem, but they could have done a biopsy over a year ago which would have given them the same result; shown how far and deep the symptoms of a failing party had spread.  But either they ignored it, ignoring a clearly and deeply diminished Biden, or they intentionally kept him in charge to maintain their free reign of leftist power.  They gas lighted us on how bad he really was, but we were not fooled for a minute.

I don't see them having a "come to Jesus"¹ moment as they quickly went on the attack after the loss, blaming Biden for not leaving² earlier, blaming minorities, blaming uneducated white women, which is itself an insult that was missed on them, blaming anyone except themselves and their completely unlikable candidate.  Will they get back to basics and their traditional issues and demographics?  I don't know, but I don't think so.  We're not the America of 50, or even 20 years ago.  The parties have changed, The left has been co-opted by the extreme left side of their party, which may be small, but is incredibly vocal, and closer to communist than ever before.  The GOP is more like the Democrat party my mom was a member of in her youth.  Although even that's changing under Trump.  US demographics have changed, we're actually far richer of a populace than we were even 20 years ago, and all the world's info is at our fingertips.  

The GOP reform party that Trump is leading right now will gain respect and members.  The left will still have their vocal fringes that demand attention like some fat crying baby in the corner- feed it and it still cries.  America is getting tired of whiners though and the left is so full of them that we'll see more epiphanies, red-pills, and a shift towards a stronger right.

Trump is our new President, and it's time for the left to wake up and take their pill.  Many already have.

Yeah, she's Canadian, but it's a nice version nevertheless.

¹Come to Jesus?  Do they even believe in him? 

² Leaving?  He didn't leave, they stabbed him right in the chest after the debate, which is when they realized they couldn't continue their Weekend at Bernie's charade.