Why did Trump win the 2024 election?
Yesterday, I was walking in the city, and two young Moroccan guys were discussing the US election outcome. “He did it, the old warrior!” said one of them, admiration evident in his voice. These were two young Muslims from what Trump had referred to as “shithole countries” during his first tenure…
People underestimate how many people love Trump.
The media, journalists, writers of opinion pieces, and intellectuals were in this little bubble where everyone, surely, must have realized after the first Trump term that he was no good? And that’s just not the way of the world. Oh, but he was found guilty of sexual assault; indeed, now no one can vote for him? Wrong! No one gives a shit. Chris Brown beat the living daylights out of Rihanna, and I still hear people blasting his music. We think that as soon as someone is accused of being heinous, that’s it. Curtains. They’re done for.
Now, the world has moved on from #MeToo, and “cancel culture” is dead and buried...
You cannot cancel someone when no one cares about his crimes. Oh, is there Russian interference in the elections? Plenty of people find Putin kinda cool, anyway, and at least he’s “not woke”. Is Elon Musk pushing fake news and misinformation on Twitter? Again, no one cares. “But, he was mean to transgender people! He disowned his transgender daughter!” Yeah, that’s awful, sure. But no one cares. There are so many scandals and awful things you can accuse Trump and his allies of. But in the “real world,” people don’t care…
It also seems that people are tired of “woke” topics, and the right has simply won the “culture wars” at this point.
Because even Latinos, African Americans, and other non-white ethnic groups voted for Trump in record numbers. And I’ll let you in on a little secret — a lot of immigrants and their descendants are very religious. They don’t like LGBT issues; they couldn’t care less about transgenders, pronouns, and puberty blockers being given to kids; in fact, they’re highly susceptible to negative campaigning about such issues. They actually are bothered by people saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” and other such things that progressives would dismiss as silly memes only boomers care about…
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz seemed to spend 80% of their campaign attacking the character of Trump. When everyone already knows he’s a dickhead — and they don’t care because he’s their dickhead. People almost always love the villains in movies more than the heroes. The Joker is far more popular than Batman ever was… and Kamala Harris made for a relatively poor Batman.
