We’re getting close to the end of vote counting. Harris will likely fall 6.5 million votes shy of Biden’s 81.3 million mark (which, as I have said, is an unbelievable number, as in I don’t believe it). Trump, in contrast, will likely increase his vote count in 2024 by 3 million votes over the mark he set in 2020. Where did 6.5 million Democrat voters go? How many of them voted for Trump? I may address this question in a future essay.
In earlier reporting, I noted that Trump won 58 percent of the electoral college and that he won every swing state. I should have reported that he won 31 of 50 states, or 62 percent of the states. He is still sitting around 50 percent of the popular vote despite Democrats running up the vote counts on the East and West Coasts. There aren’t many votes left to count, albeit there have been enough to overturn some House races in Democrats favor.
We are being told that this election was not a landslide. But as one can see from the map above, every state shift Red. The results of this election indicate a massive political realignment, one made even more dramatic by all the obstacles that stood in Trump’s way. Trump won in the face of being outspent 3-to-1 by the Harris campaign, having been impeached twice, four criminal indictments that contained dozens of felony counts (election subversion, fraud, obstruction), a guilty verdict on 34 counts in one of those cases, a civil suit concerning defamation and sexual assault, near total opposition from the corporate media, and the widespread public shaming of those who expressed their support for his candidacy.
The election was a referendum on all of that and more. Tens of millions went to the polls and rendered their verdict in favor of Trump. But they also voted against Democrats. There are a lot of tangibles (mass immigration, inflation, etc.), but there is an overall mood in the country against the woke progressivism and identity politics and elitism the Democrats represent. As a result, not only did Trump win the Presidency, but the Republicans recaptured the Senate and kept the House.
Here’s my take on what is going on in electoral politics (and why I was so confident Trump would win). When the Democratic Party sold out to big corporate donors, especially with the New Democrat strategy of Bill Clinton (a strategy also pursued by Tony Blair and New Labour in the UK), it shifted its popular allegiance from the working class to the middle class. The Democratic Party had to turn to identity politics to build a coalition made up of the credentialed, the poor, and the disaffected. With the emergence of populism, the Republican Party shifted away from its allegiance to the corporate donor class and towards working class and rural people. The public had a back-to-back comparison of the two parties, and preferring populism over progressivism, put Trump back in the White House. To be sure, both parties are capitalist parties and still represent the interests of the real ruling class—the capitalist class. But in relation to the common man, the parties flipped loyalties and Democrats paid the price.
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