We have just witnessed a miracle, a resounding victory, one of the greatest political comebacks in US, perhaps world, history. Or, did we? What REALLY contributed to the amazing Trump electoral and popular vote victory?
It has been suggested it was an Act of God. That can’t be fully discounted. While Trump’s minor minor injury has received much derision from the left, it is the EXTENT of his injuries that is miraculous. Simply consider how close that .223 bullet came to Trump’s head. Also, consider that his head was moving at the time. One person was killed, and two others wounded. The shooter meant business. That bullet could not have been any closer to being deadly without being deadly. Luck is luck, I guess, but arguing against the Hand of God there would be difficult to win.
But that is why Trump is still here. That doesn’t explain why he won and won decisively. To explain this, the Democrats need to confess to several fallacies they (and by “they”, one has to include the left’s Ministry of Propaganda, which is the media arm of the DNC) promoted. Let’s just see.
First, there is the Biden question. Despite the thousands of hints, everyone received with their own eyes and ears, we were told Biden was energetic, sharp, brilliant, and outrunning all his staffers. At the same time, there were actual discussions and work-shopping for how to delicately excise Kamala from the ticket because even if they tried, they couldn’t come up with a more incapable and unlikable Vice President. Then there was the Biden/Trump debate in which Biden just stood there looking stupid as if to make sure no one misses the fact that he is a mentally disabled, debilitated, worn out, incapable, incompetent dementia patient. The ongoing behind-the-scenes effort to figure out how to replace Biden with a non-mummified semblance of a human being kicked into a higher gear and, despite Biden going public declaring he had no intention of dropping out (which maybe he didn’t), he suddenly and out of the blue (giggle) “put nation before party” and gave up. Then, Pelosi wiped the blood off her shiv and went back to Plasticville; her work was done.
But why was it necessary for Biden to hit the silk? Didn’t we all think the economy was great? The border was under control? Crime was on the wane? Boy, did the entire world live in awe of America’s good fortune to have Biden, a senior, brilliant statesman, as President or what? Why in Holy Hell would Good Old Joe consider dropping out? Could it be the lingering 20% inflation his spending caused? Could it be the high energy costs his stupid green energy policies caused? Could it be the 12,000,000 illegal immigrants, including 13,099 CONVICTED murderers and 15,000 CONVICTED sex offenders, he and Kamala invited and welcomed into our neighborhoods? Could it be the previously unknown impact all these illegal immigrants have on our society imposed upon previously unaffected liberals in blue districts because of illegal immigrants being shared with them by the busloads? Could it be national security floating away like a Chinese spy balloon allowed to leisurely photograph and collect intelligence all across the country? Nope, none of that. It was because Biden bravely put the country first. Suddenly and unexpectedly.
Was that it? Or was it the pre-packaged replacement that, like a dog turd stepped on and crushed up inside the deep tread of your boot, the Democrats couldn’t quite figure out how to get shed off? Biden had gone through a somewhat rigged and manipulated primary process for his campaign. 14,000,000 chose Biden over absolutely no other choices. He had the delegates pledged for him. But, that’s just kind of a, you know, formality. Kind of like a play. Theater. When the old dilapidated curmudgeon needs to be shed, what does a “primary” actually mean, anyway? Also, like magic, Kamala sheds her unlikable, failed border czar, incompetent, foolish, chortling chrysalis and comes out as the most accomplished, capable, and articulate person, white or black, man or woman, earthling or extraterrestrial that anyone could possibly imagine as a candidate. The Democrats, not wanting anyone to think the fix was already in, held a sort of a version of a convention and decided, in unison, “Hey… why not Kamala? She’s GREAT!!” And so it came to be that Kamala became the Democrat candidate for President without ever earning a single primary vote, right there where the waters suddenly parted.
Was it that insult to the electoral process Democrats who might STILL think there is such a legitimate process in their party that did it? Or was the tide turned in the campaign itself? Was it when Kamala did a Rockford turn-around on all the policies that made Kamala Kamala and tried to disavow everything she ever stood for? Or was it a refusal to admit to being any part of the disaster that was the Biden regime? Perhaps, for some people, “I wouldn’t change a thing” and “I’m not a continuance of the Biden administration” didn’t quite make sense. She gave up the ear-bleeding-inducing cackle (mostly), but could not articulate a single policy. “Joy” is not a policy and Kamala’s version of it is not even particularly joyful. Changing accents is not impressive and neither are “celebrities” that have to be paid to endorse her. What mattered was the economy, mostly, and without admitting to the actions that led to high energy costs and inflation and promising (for what that’s worth) not to do it anymore, who would vote for more of that? Hanging your hopes on blaming Republicans for not supporting a border bill that did not add a single molecule of additional border security (like what we had before it was intentionally destroyed) or would do anything to disincentive illegal immigration or stop it at the border does not satisfy those impacted by or worried about the out of control flow of illegal immigrants. Strangely, neither does keeping the border open and not admitting it is open.
Or, was it ultimately the guy they focused their hate and vitriol towards? Maybe his proven record as President, though vigorously re-written by the Ministry of Propaganda, would also not call out the opposition’s lies about, the totally and openly fascist lawfare campaign to bankrupt and imprison him, unconstitutionally trying to prohibit him from being on ballots, calling him (and anyone that supports him) racist, fascist, Nazi, treasonous, a threat to “democracy”, a dictator, a dog-kicker, Nun-slapper, baby-tosser (OK… I made some up) didn’t serve as a valid replacement for a capability to lead. I doubt anyone could envision Kamala sitting down across from Putin to negotiate the end of the Ukraine war (once all the parasites have made enough money off it) and beginning her negotiation with, “I grew up in a middle-class family”. No, no one outside of DEI-worship land cared one bit how many “firsts” Kamala represented. Being a competent leader was still a must and was still sadly lacking.
Another factor was election integrity. I am someone who, through extensive research, believes election fraud was a distinctive and decisive factor in 2020. I know, I could be wrong, but one convincing factor for me is how rabidly Democrats avoided and evaded any serious examination of credible accusations. It wasn’t disproven, it was suppressed. No doubt, all of what I have read about and suspect is not true, but enough was there to change the outcome of a close election. I was not the only suspicious mind. Elon Musk pledged $45 million (my guess is that fund would, in reality, be bottomless) towards assuring election integrity. There were numerous lawsuits brought against the way ballots were handled, how they were sent, voter rolls, and the incessant and in some cases AUTOMATIC registration of illegal immigrants. I doubt every incident was detected and defeated but I think the threat of observance and response reduced the scale of it from 2020’s level and then the cases challenged and won reduced election fraud to a mere trickle. (now the mission should be to make sure it doesn’t continue to happen)
I have been involved in a few “lessons learned” meetings after projects have not gone particularly well. They are not pleasant if meant to be helpful. One wonders if the Democrats have the courage and intelligence to honestly do that. History tells us, NOPE. Not gonna happen. They won’t try to figure out what REALLY cost them the election because, I believe, they fear what they will see.
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This is an excellent summary. I would also ad all the trans stuff. The democrats pretended people didn’t care, but one of Trump’s most effective ads was played over and over about that. Turns out, people don’t want their girls being assaulted in women’s bathrooms. The BUD LIGHT thing should have made that clear. But the left doesn’t listen. I’m not going to waste my time telling them either. Victor Davis Hanson says the left still has suffered enough electorally and will keep losing. That’s fine with me, and now we have an even better line up with people like JD Vance.
dems are suddenly backing off their trans agenda.
As if.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/07/democrats-distance-from-transgender-extremism-after-trump-win/
Like every other issue, they have to stop being so honest about how much they hate this country and want to destroy it
You have a big troll on your hands…
Yup. The idiot shows up every so often. Ban him each time but adopts new ips and all that.
Back when Wizbang was a good site, I remember them having a creative technique for handling trolls. Instead of banning, trolls got hit with a “disemvowelment” – they would just remove all of the vowels from any stupid comment. So we could still see the idiot had spoken, while at the same time taking away xi/xir’s voice
Oh man….I like that. I may have to start doing that.
I do remember Wizbang from the early years of this blog.
Yeah, Jay Tea was my big inspiration to start blogging. In fact, I repeated one of his posts on Climate Change so often I thought the ideas were my own. So I wrote a post that read like bad plagiarism and a few weeks after that I realized what I’d done. When I wrote a follow up post I included an apology with a link to his original. He must have gotten a pingback, because he took a minute to comment that it was all good and thanked me for the citation. That site really went downhill after he left.
The American People sent a clear message to the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders and Gutter Dwellers WE DONT TRUST YOU ANYMORE
The actual moment the race was called for Trump
Very well written analysis of the 2024 presidential election. Perhaps the lesson that the unhinged liberal progressive members of the Democratic Party should learn is the first law of holes. Of course, it might be a leap of faith to assume that there is distinct separation of ideas within the Democratic Party.
They are committed to an ideology that the vast majority of the American people do not want. To promote that agenda requires massive amounts of lies and, it appears, the influence of the Ministry of Propaganda is waning.