Following President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping victory on November 5, elected Democrats and the establishment media quickly pivoted from slandering Trump and his supporters as “fascists” to calling for “unity.” Conservatives should see this ploy for what it is – just another effort to undermine Trump’s agenda and the will of American voters.
President Joe Biden, speaking from the White House, urged the country to view one another as “fellow Americans” rather than adversaries after the election – never mind the fact that just days earlier he had called every Trump supporter “garbage.” Tim Walz, fresh off comments comparing Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally to a 1939 pro-Nazi rally, likewise called for “unity.”
Kamala Harris also made overtures to unity in her concession speech, apparently forgetting or ignoring that the closing themes of her campaign were comparing Trump and his supporters to Hitler and running blatantly false ads claiming that Trump would be a “dictator” if he won.
The inconvenient truth for Democrats about the 2024 election is that Donald Trump has already unified the country – he’s just unified it behind his America First platform and against the left’s failed agenda. Trump improved on his 2020 performance in 90 percent of counties nationwide, while Harris lost ground compared to Biden’s 2020 numbers in every state.
Trump also won the popular vote this year – something no Republican presidential candidate has done since 2004. Even when Trump won the White House in 2016, Democrats claimed a “victory” of sorts due to Hillary Clinton’s popular vote edge, lamenting the supposed unfairness of the “biased” Electoral College. Now even this talking point has been erased.
Republicans also held their majority in the U.S. House and won back the Senate. While votes are still being counted, GOP House and Senate candidates – the vast majority of whom ran under Trump’s “Make America Great Again” banner – are very likely to have garnered more votes nationally than their Democrat counterparts.
Even before the final matchup between Trump and Biden and then Trump and Harris was officially set, it was already clear the country was unified against Biden and Harris. Biden entered office with an approval rating above 55 percent. That sunk to 38 percent earlier this year and is now barely hovering above 40 percent. This dramatic collapse is the direct result of four years of runaway inflation, 10-20 million illegal border crossings, multiple foreign fiascos beginning with the Afghanistan debacle, forcing radical left-wing social policies on the American people, and a litany of other policy failures, along with Biden’s staff attempting to hide the president’s cognitive decline from the public.
Kamala Harris, as Biden’s “border czar” and someone who bragged about being the “last person in the room” with Biden before his most fateful decisions, most notoriously the Afghanistan withdrawal, owns these failures as well. Before the media’s all-out effort to rehabilitate her image following Biden dropping out of the race, Harris was the least popular vice president in modern history. Some liberal pundits were even calling for Biden to replace her as his running mate for fear she would hurt his chances at re-election.
What November 5 showed, however, is that the American people aren’t just united against Biden and Harris – they are united behind Trump.
It’s worth considering just how remarkable this outcome is given the concerted decade-long effort to slander and villainize Trump in order to foment the very opposite of the “unity” that Democrats now claim to want.
From Hillary Clinton’s infamous “basket of deplorables” smear in 2016 to Biden’s “you ain’t black” remark in 2020 and his “garbage” comment this year, Democrats have relied almost exclusively on a “divide and conquer” strategy when it comes to Trump. Democrats and their media allies have incessantly called Trump racist and “accused him of “dog whistling” to white supremacists to alienate voters of color, propped up dubious claims of sexual assault against him and lied about his abortion policy to alienate women, and propagated an endless stream of hoaxes to distract from the undeniable successes of Trump’s first term.
The 2024 election was a thorough repudiation of this divisive strategy. Since November 5, Trump has been one of the most unifying political figures in recent history, nominating multiple former Democrats to serve in his cabinet and announcing a string of popular policies like making IVF treatments free and expanding school choice.
Democrats, for their part, seem poised to run the same gameplan against Trump that they have for the past eight years – accusing him of being “divisive” while themselves using every media and political tool at their disposal to divide the country.
Republicans should be confident in advancing the policy platform outlined by Trump throughout the course of the 2024 campaign, no matter how loudly Democrats try to claim it is “divisive” and demand “compromise” with the far-left agenda.
Trump’s agenda is what Americans voted for, and that is what Americans deserve.
Shane Harris is a writer and political consultant from Southwest Ohio. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
Unity my arse.
I don’t trust any “Democratic Socialist”
Just ask the folks in the Carolinas that needed help after hurricane Helene and the Biden administration’s FEMA got caught withholding help from the people whom didn’t vote Democrat.
Democrats offering a peaceful transition of power? My arse! Now that Trump has selected his cabinet, the Marxists’ tramps are pouring out from behind the woodwork and from under their slime covered rocks with allegation after allegation. “Demon-crat” is certainly the befitting label for this scum. ALL. Of. Them.
The winner== Pres. D. Trump. To have unity, all of the nation must forget their difference and get along. I know, the Democrats are still trying to overturn Senate and House results into their favor. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES — YOU LOST. The people have spoken “NO” to socialism at this time. Unfortunately, you Demos will not get over your loss as you continue to spew out negativities against Pres. Trump and his supporters through MSM outlets. Hopefully, most Americans will tire of your charades and do their best in their communities to put life back on track.
Democrat “unity” after Trump victory is like having the nagging ex-wife invite herself to the new wedding and honeymoon… and she’s brought her loser family!
the dumb ascraps are the enemy and will stab trump in the back any and every chance they get. do not let them have any chances.
Too bad you can’t get the addresses of all those dumb democrats, especially the teachers union members, and send them a copy of this article
I don’t believe for one millisecond that the Democrats want unity, unless its on THEIR terms. And I don’t necessarily trust the RINOs not to block Trump’s choices. We need to be VERY VERY careful not to trust any of them, regardless of the mandate and having both houses. Meanwhile Biden wants to get Putin to start WW3. Why didn’t they let just wander off into the rainforest?
Democrats have had four years to promote unity. Instead they promoted calling conservatives Nazis, garbage, fascists, racists and a multitude of other names. Since Hillary, and the use of deplorables, substance has been replaced by slander. Now they face the prospect of retribution, perhaps serious legal consequences, and they call for unity. Republicans have been guilty of similar conduct, but not to the same degree in my opinion. While Democrats like Schumer and Pelosi out right lie, continually, Republicans tend to exaggerate. If there is provable evidence of wrong doing, lying to the people included, Republicans should pursue that. Criminally if the evidence warrants it. If wrong doing is suspected from just circumstantial evidence Republicans should state their case, provide their evidence, and let the public decide. I, for one, am tired of the we gotcha moments in press releases that don’t pan out. The constant hearings, without any substance, are a waste of money. It also wastes time that would be better spent conducting business relevant to the country and its people.
Democrats and their minions are not to be trusted. They have to earn our trust, which is unlikely.
DONT Buy the Morning Joe BS Game
Im reminded of classic westerns where the bad guy pretends to stop fighting only long enough to grab a handful of dirt to throw in clint eastwoods eyes. The only honor these dems have is to the marxist vision. Lets not get carried away and forget who these people are.
The moment I heard Biden, Harris, etc. talking about unity and smiling big, I thought of Hamas. When they want time to re-group the terrorists and re-supply their weapons, they ask for a cease fire. Thankfully Israel is not falling for such calls this time. I hope the Republicans don’t ever fall for it.
Unity? We’ve heard of calls for ceasefire and peace talks good will toward all and agreements and kisses on the cheek ,we all know how it all ended Democrats as a whole are made from the same material. unfortunately.
The liberal idea of “unity” is a unigovernment that rules our lives. It sure is predictable how Biden and Schumer came out and called for “unity” and a peaceful transition of power (AKA a request to Trump for mercy) after all they did to him and the American people. Did you see how MSN-BS’s Meeeekah and Joe Scarborough kissed Trump’s ring over the weekend, this after labeling him a Nazi among other vile names? Guess their high-paying leftist propaganda jobs are on the line and I say give ’em the AXE!! No, I don’t trust a thing that they say, and they all should be held accountable for their actions without mercy. Otherwise they’ll continue their evil, diabolical scheming to regain power and control.
IT WOULD BE ONE THING… If the Dems were a “Honorable Bunch”… they are NOT! While you have them on the ropes, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT until the entire country understands we didn’t elect a “Globalist” president… we elected a MAGA President!
God Bless Donald J Trump!
“United we stand, divided we fall.” We must quit pointing fingers at each other & both parties start doing what is best for all of America and not their pet projects. And in my opinion, this can only be done if we have support of RINOs and DINOs! Do not allow Government to take the U out of USA after +200 years!
When it comes to the calls of unity from the democrat party, talk is cheap.
The democrats would cut their own mother’s throat in an effort to stay in power. And lie and blame it on Trump.
I think the MSM is going to have a difficult time taking a hard right turn to align with American values. Marxist Socialist Democrat values are failed and they have not yet learned their lesson. America does not want Marxism Socialism or any of their efforts to turn us into a “queer Nation”. Go away and never come back with your leftist garbage, we are done with it!
The far-left has done their dirty deeds behind closed doors. What you do in the dark, will some day come out in the daylight. It sure has!! I’m praying the Republicans in Senate & House will be ever vigilant about the under-handedness of the Left & what they are capable of. The rule of law & the Constitution never applied to them, but now they’re starting to use it to block everything Republicans want to do before they even take office. Rules for thee…..Trump can turn this country around with God guiding him. Keep praying people.
Even loser FEMA considers Trump Supporters as “Domestic Terrorist” under biden/harris. That’s why they wouldn’t help American Hurricane victims. FEMA, biden/harris must be prosecuted for Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights and refusal to comply with the law.
The hate the fact that President Trump won look now what Biden is doing giving Ukraine long range missiles to to get Russia mad just before President Trump takes office time to get that guy out of office before he starts world war 3 with what he is doing which is on purpose with a big smile on his face when President Trump was up in the White House the Dems and him are set out to cause as much chaos in the world before Trump takes office just like the Dem run cities that will keep the illegals in there state let them but President Trump should not give them a dime of money for them this is tax payers money and I do not want them to have a dime of my money and I am sure there are a lot more besides me.
Re: democrats; lest we forget their very dark and ugly history. Slave owners who went to war to keep their slaves. Cross burnings, hanging the slaves from bridges. Beatings, rapes, mutilations and who knows what else happened to so many brought here against their will.
Can’t help but wonder during Al Capone’s day in Chicago how many democrats were involved in massive crime, illegal distilleries, women for hire, …