In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreement in 2020. Similarly, in a just world, Hollywood’s top studios would be bidding for the rights to make the film right now. The greatest comeback story in American history: Donald Trump, the past and future president.
President Trump’s electoral landslide this week is historic. His countless enemies illegally spied on his 2016 election campaign. They thoroughly fabricated the “Russian collusion” story and spent years “investigating” it. They impeached him twice. They indicted him across four separate jurisdictions, totaling 91 criminal charges. They tried to humiliate him, bankrupt him, and imprison him. Assassins tried to kill him twice.
They failed repeatedly and disastrously. Mr. Trump has cemented his position as the most influential American politician since Ronald Reagan. He became the first Republican presidential candidate to win a national election. Popularity vote For more than a generation, he has scrambled America’s political coalition, expanding it beyond its white working-class base and into the entire tapestry of modern American life.
And he did it all despite the passionate opposition and disdain of ruling elites from sea to shining sea. That venerable 19th century Grover Cleveland will never be seen again.”bourbon democratThe only answer to the trivia question, “Which president served two non-consecutive terms?” You can now add Mar-a-Lago’s Maestro to your list. It’s a fascinating and surprising story.
In addition to being the biggest comeback in American history, political or otherwise, there were at least two important takeaways from Tuesday’s unrest.
First, it is clear that the 2008 Barack Obama-Democratic cross-party coalition has disappeared. Allied forces are not injured or in any danger. that’s it died. Mr. Trump made historic inroads with Hispanic voters, black voters, young voters, and other demographic subgroups that have been vital to the Democratic Party since 2008. Trump won the single most Hispanic county in the nation (97% Hispanic). Starr County, Texas — 16% decrease. Queens County, New York, known as one of the most ethnically and racially diverse counties in the country, jumped more than 20 points for President Trump from its 2020 performance. wholeMr. Trump won just under half of the U.S. Hispanic vote, making historic inroads among black men. Voters under 35 were a core Democratic constituency in the not-so-distant past, but they are now a volatile voting group.
Obamaism is dead.
This is a seismic shift in the American political landscape, and it’s unclear where Democrats will go from here. They can scream “Nazis!” Or “Fascists!” But the reality is that their policies on many issues, from race to gender to immigration to crime to the economy, are alienating large swathes of modern America. Democrats seem to be inclined to use America’s aging president as a scapegoat. As if Uncle Joe was somehow to blame for not withdrawing from the race weeks or even months earlier. This is a pure response. Democrats, the problem isn’t that Biden stayed on too long. Nor is the problem the pervasive sexism and misogyny among American voters, as the insufferable Sunny Hostin hilariously suggested on “The View.” The problem is that the Democratic Party is no longer a mainstream political organization.
Second, Mr. Trump, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, and the broader MAGA movement currently have a unique opportunity. As this column noted in July, after President Trump chose Vance as his running mate, the opportunity is to “break with arbitrary old political lines and create a broader, centrist, permanent coalition.” “Transform American political life by building generational coalitions.” It is imperative that President Trump, and perhaps more importantly, his soon-to-be allies in Congress, understand this. The cultural and civilizational divide in America reflected in this election is less a traditional “right” versus “left” ideological divide than a more prosaic, but similar, divide between normality and sanity on the one hand. It is a severe division. On the other hand, decadence and strangeness.
Republicans are seeking control of the White House, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate. Opportunities like this are rare, and Republicans need to take advantage of them. The president’s and Congress’ agendas must be geared to prioritize everyday people who have been marginalized for decades. both party. Let Democrats continue to navel-gaze and morally groom themselves about their “virtues.” All we have to do is enact concrete policies that make life better for ordinary people, from the economy to trade to immigration and everything in between.
The opportunity to reinvent the Republican Party as America’s majority party is ripe. And what a Hollywood ending that would be.
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