Not surprisingly, opinions are decidedly mixed on why President-Elect Donald Trump enjoyed such a decisive victory over Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s presidential election.
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Perhaps the most disagreements out there on the “how did this happen?” question are coming from stunned Democrats and media figures alike who no doubt felt certain going into Election Day that their mix of lawfare and demonization of the former president as the “next Hitler” would ultimately be his undoing.
Not only did it not turn out that way, but the tactics backfired bigly, with Trump crushing the Harris-Walz ticket, winning not only more than the required electoral votes but the popular vote as well, with the latter adding insult to injury considering all the arguments from the left about how we need to turn presidential elections into popular vote contests.
As is often the case with Democrats, when they lose their first thought isn’t to engage in introspection but to blame those around them and their political opponents, because Democrats in general choose to believe that the problem is not with them but with everyone else.
But at least one House Democrat, Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), is on the right track with his assessment of what went wrong for them on Election Day, telling the elitists on his side of the aisle that far-leftism plays right into the hands of savvy Republicans like Trump, which leads to the types of resounding GOP victories we saw Tuesday night courtesy of voters who have had enough of Woke Inc.:
Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like “Defund the Police” or “From the River to the Sea” or “Latinx.”
There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world. The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling.
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There are other issues as well, as my colleague Ward Clark talked much more about on the VIP side, but Torres hit the nail on the head on some of the big-ticket items that are causing members of normally reliable voting blocs to flee the Democrat Party in droves.
Not that I want Democrats to learn from their election losses (and believe me, I’m not worried that they will because they never do), but it’s refreshing all the same to see that there are still a few semi-sane voices left, voices that may one day decide that enough’s enough and come on over to the dark side, where the “Garbage Coalition” just keeps growing and growing…
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