For the third election in a row Donald Trump's electoral support continues to rise, most notably from white women and ethnic minorities, who the High Priestesses of Identity Politics tell us must hate his guts.* Given his growing success with these very groups and the American population in general, his presence at the center of American politics cannot be explained away as an aberration; in fact, Trump is the default setting for all those voters effectively expelled by the two-party duopoly, a large and growing number.
While they are loathe to admit it, the Pussy Hat brigades bear major responsibility for sustaining the Trump phenomenon for nine long years now, with now at least four more to come. When Bernie Sanders asked Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2015, she told him she couldn't because she was beholden to Hillary Clinton. So Sanders ran instead, holding the social democrat banner high and proudly while mobilizing millions to the cause of reviving the New Deal as the center of Democratic Party politics. For his trouble he was tarred as a misogynist and his followers as despicable "Bernie Bros" who detest women. "Sisterhood" prevailed.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton worked assiduously to insure that Donald Trump would win the GOP nomination, as he would supposedly be the easiest Republican to beat. When Trump won the nomination and then defeated Hillary in the fall election, Hillary Inc. said it was an illegitimate and aberrant result and declared itself "the resistance" against Trumpian Evil.
In 2019, Hawaii Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard revealed that the Democratic National Committee had rigged the nomination against Sanders in 2016 and were turning the presidential debates into "commercialized reality television" in an effort to do it again in 2020. When Sanders threatened to surge to the Democratic Party nomination anyway, the DNC pulled out all the stops in favor of the doddering Joe Biden, a career Reagan Democrat in cognitive decline whose popularity with voters tended to plummet the more they got to know him. Warren's role was to ambush Sanders in a televised debate with the false accusation that the Vermont Senator had once told her that a woman could not be president of the United States. She remained in the race even after she had no path to the nomination, but just long enough to split the social-democratic vote with Sanders, so that Biden could gain momentum with a win in South Carolina.
The strategy worked. The DNC candidates united behind Biden, Sanders's momentum stalled, after which Covid surged even faster than his initial campaign had. Biden's handlers knew just what to do. They hid Biden in his basement, limited his public announcements to the absolute minimum, and let the pandemic steadily erode support for the Orange Menace. With no vaccines available until after the elections and Trump reduced to repeatedly announcing that the virus would miraculously disappear, the president went down to defeat while hundreds of thousands of Americans died.
In 2024, Biden refused to allow a party primary precisely so that voters would not be able to canvas the field of potential candidates and select the strongest one for a return match-up with Trump. He was the man for the job, no matter what anyone else might think, though his senile decline often left him with little idea as to his own whereabouts or what day of the week it might be.
After Biden's handlers had shielded Biden from public contact for years, they affected surprise at the first presidential debate when he was seen to be a vegetable before an audience of 51 million, gaping more in senility than indignation at Trump's toxic rants, which remained largely unrebutted by the obviously incapacitated Biden, who everyone could see was destined to lose the election.
Mama Bear Pelosi told Biden he would have to step aside in favor of his vice-president, Kamala Harris. Harris had zero democratic legitimacy, having soared to three percent support in 2020 and then withdrawn before the primaries even began. All she had to offer was female genitalia and brown skin, but that was enough for the DNC. With deep economic pain etched into the political landscape throughout the country, Harris couldn't talk about jobs or production or really anything convincingly except abortion, which became the central policy theme. Though she obviously needed to distance herself from Biden's horrendous extermination policy in Palestine, she couldn't, because that would require out-debating party hawks on the issue. It's impossible to imagine her out-arguing Hillary or Dick Cheney.
The most obnoxious wing of the party reigned supreme (the DNC), and anyone concerned about anything other than abortion and waxing hysterical about Donald Trump were told they were helping "deplorables" (HRC) or "garbage" (Biden) and pushed out of the party.
Running solely on abortion-on-demand backfired. The electorate preferred Trump. Even fifty-two percent of white women, supposedly the natural constituency for the Democrats on abortion, voted against them. So did an increasing number of young people, Latinos, and blacks, for whom Trump is supposedly anathema.
Trump is the wrecking ball who destroyed the RINO's (Republicans In Name Only) in 2016 and now has defeated Identity Politics Inc. i.e., the Democratic Party, for the second time.
The job of the American people is to see that out of the wreckage of these two demolition jobs arises a real democracy, not just another angry toppling of sacred idols that leaves our political problems unaddressed and unresolved.
*Trump got 74 million votes in 2020 and 71 million in 2024, but this is the first time he won the popular vote.
Sources:
Jason Lemon, "Tulsi Gabbard Threatens To Boycott Next Debate," Newsweek, October 10, 2019
Simon Pathé "Kamala Harris drops out of 2020 presidential race," Roll Call, December 3, 2019
Irami Osei-Frimpong, "White Women Delivered Trump 2024", The Funky Academic, November 7, 2024
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