Donald Trump.
He’s back.
After the most dramatic election cycle in modern American history, Trump has won a sweeping victory, moving every single state in America in his direction from 2020. He didn’t just sweep the swing states. He only lost New Jersey by five points. He won Miami-Dade County in Florida — the first Republican presidential candidate to win the county since George H.W. Bush in 1988. He won 45% of the Hispanic vote. In several of the key swing states, he broke 40% with the Jewish vote. He won north of 20% of the Black male vote.
Trump grew his coalition in every single area.
Across the board.
So, what happened?
The answer has two components: first, Trump. And second, the Democratic Party and its apparatchiks in the media.
First, Trump. Trump is a unique figure.
He was one of the most famous people on earth before he ever ran for president. This made him immune to attempts to characterize him in overwrought fashion. Nobody truly believed Donald Trump was Hitler; after his first term, there was literally zero evidence that he would ever be. Yet Democrats continued to treat him as a threat to the very fabric of the republic, a would-be dictator hell-bent on seizing power and wielding it against his enemies. The attack didn’t land.
Trump also has magnetic charisma. It’s a sort of charisma that many Americans don’t understand: he rambles, he jokes, he says silly things. But he is absolutely himself, 100% of the time. He is the most authentic political candidate of our lifetimes. Americans trust him, despite his penchant for exaggeration and tall tales, because they know him.
And what’s more, Trump knows them, too. Trump has an innate love for the American people. When he dons an apron at a McDonald’s and serves fries, he’s not doing that because he wants Americans to believe that he’s suddenly a blue-collar fry cook. It’s because he wants them to know he likes and respects them. And that he likes and respects their values.
Which brings us to the Democratic Party and their propagandists in the media.
The story of the 2024 election isn’t about Kamala Harris. She is a nothingburger. She always was. She was never “joy” or “brat.” She is a career politician who has never won a vote outside of California. She was slotted into Joe Biden’s nomination because the sitting president physically expired on the debate stage. And she then proceeded to act as a fresh coat of paint on the battered jalopy of the Democratic Party record.
Americans saw through it. What Americans saw, instead of her celebrity-flecked candidacy of pseudo-excitement, was yet another iteration of the Democratic Party’s playbook: transgressive values disconnected from the traditional family values Americans like; a peculiarly insular view of the economy that believes a government handout can make up for expensive groceries and declining prospects; an arrogance rooted in the supposed superiority of a pseudo-intellectual self-appointed nobility — a nobility that scorns achievement and innovation in the name of luxury beliefs; an anti-American sense of our country’s history and role in the world.
Americans have been saddled with this Democratic playbook since the Obama era. And they hate it. That’s why Trump won in 2016. And it’s why Trump won again in 2024. Because while the left likes to proclaim that Trump isn’t normal, the reality is that their agenda isn’t normal. The form of normality they cherish is deeply abnormal. It runs counter to American notions of virtue and individual freedom, of property rights and American exceptionalism. Slathering platitudinous nonsense on that abnormality doesn’t render it more normal; it just renders it more dishonest.
And so the normies struck back. They said enough. They want the American dream — Hispanics in south Texas and white Americans in northern Ohio and Black voters in Wisconsin; Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Muslims.
It turns out the American dream is still alive in the hearts of Americans. We want our share of that dream. Even more, we want to dream that dream together.
That’s why Donald Trump is back. Because America is back.
Ben Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author.
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He won because our prayers were answered.
He offered that which democrats were incapable off. Control over the border, law and order, functioning economy, all of which makes country a coherent unit, not the fractioned, compartmentalized mess run by hysterical out of control incompetents
My mind is blown as to how there was just a 5 million vote spread. What in the world did those who voted for her see any hope for this country with her in charge? Mindless people for sure. Democrats couldn’t have a worse candidate…Praying for wisdom for DJT and JD Vance for success for MAGA to get us back on track. Thanks to our Lord and Savior for answered prayers…
I wouldn’t say, America is back, I’d say America wants to get back. And Harris wasn’t going to be able to do it. Trump could. But, even with control of the house and senate it’s not going to be a walk in the park for him. We have a lot of problems, big problems. Boeing went back to work, but the dock workers are next in the wings, we have two ongoing wars, the abortion issues are not going away, violence and drugs are out of control nation wide-kids don’t go to jail, they’re let go to murder and rob over and over, the police are given no support and put in jail for trying to enforce the law, and we haven’t even mentioned the border issues. There’s much to be done, it’ll take time…
What should frighten all of us is just how close this election was.
The sheer ignorance and stupidity of nearly half of those who voted is truly horrifying and does not bode well for the future of this nation or for the concept of “freedom” all around the world.
After almost four years of suffering under the most corrupt, criminal, treasonous, and incompetent administration in this nation’s history, nearly half of those who voted actually voted for four more years of the same – or likely worse.
Something has gone terribly wrong in this nation and we need to figure out what it is and fix it, or surely this nation is doomed.
He won because Americans have experienced the lies first hand.
The “Democrats” lost the 2024 elections so completely because they lost all credibility and trust in the discerning eyes of a huge majority of honest, hard-working Americans.
Ever since Bill Clinton’s sordid, “scuzzy” presidency, the “democrats” have exhibited behaviors as filthy, dishonest, and destructive as…. his. Incessant lying, escalating refusal to protect taxpayers’ interests, sponsoring wasteful energy policies, hideous overspending through “gifting” of unearned taxpayer dollars to countless special interests, (including illegal aliens), and other efforts aimed at harnessing the “woke” power of “liberal neurosis” at the ballot box, are the tip of the iceberg. They embraced and incited “BLM” violence and destruction, and made years-long efforts to convert our schools to regimented, cultural reorientation institutions that further leftwing “causes” by sexually perverting young children, and ignoring parents’ rights
We don’t want the absurdly self-righteous, non-thinking, irresponsible, child-perverting liberalism any longer. It stinks. Please leave it outside for the rubbish hauler… tonight.
“…That’s why Trump won in 2016. And it’s why Trump won again in 2024.”
And now with the numbers known in this election, the 15 MILLION fewer than the election of 2020, it can now be proven that the election of 2020 was STOLEN. There were millions of fraudulent Unsigned and Unverified mail-in votes counted in 2020. So the correct statement is, Trump won in 2016, Trump won in 2024, AND Trump won in 2020.
Trump took a bullet for America. Biden/Harris took a major dump on America and ran away with the toilet paper. We The People haven’t forgotten. MAGA!!!
One thing I never hear from the media is it’s THEIR FAULT! They covered for Biden knowing he was mentally incapable of not only being indicted by his own DOJ but re-election. If they’d have done their basic jobs, Biden would be out and they could have primaried but if not had three years to polish that turd named Kamala! Oh but with Trump in, you can bet they can’t wait to be “journalists” once again though!
Performance matters. Results matter. People matter…ALL people. That’s Trump and THA
T’s what Americans want!
Plain and simple. Trump won because the Democrat candidate and the Democrat policies SUCK!
The Democrats made their own BED by calling people who disagree with them and their narrative as racists, bigots, xenophobes, homophobes, misogynists, garbage etc. The people got fed up with it and voted against them and their Presidential candidate. Now they have to sleep in it.
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A lesson here should be that Racial Politics and Gender Politics to end. Kamala and her Campaign did not stand on Platform but rather if you were Black or Hispanic or a Woman you should vote for her. If you were a Man, no matter your Race but especially if you were White, you should vote for her to prove you were not Racist or Misogynists. She gave no clear picture of her stand on any of the issues such as the Economy or the Border. We had no clue as to her ability in dealing with Foreign Policy or the current Wars that appear to be ongoing without an end in sight. The one and only clearly unmistakable thing throughout her Campaign is that she hated Trump and most if not all Republicans if they did not vote for her,
We needed to have a better life and our prayers were answered we have President Trump back in the White House.
My understanding is that a huge contribution for Trumps victory came from the democrat party. Democrats working for the party are coming forward and saying that if they spoke out against the party’s actions they were harshly treated and black bald by the party. If their constituents were found out to have spoken out, then they were harshly ridiculed. After the election these folks are coming out and admitting that they willfully voted for Trump and will not go back to the party. My understanding is that they lost a lot of votes from the African American and Hispanic People. Whatever the case America spoke, and the people are indeed Fed-up, and it showed.
late to the party with this.
The People did not want the Dems/ Socialists to Ruin Our Country
If you run around on a campaign and claim you are the party of joy, (whatever THAT is supposed to mean), and unity, while calling more than 50% of the people you want to vote for you “Nazi, Racist, Fascist Garbage, you should not be surprised when you lose. Kamala called it long before the election took place. On Nov 6 2024, America was unBidened (burdened) from what had been and saved from what could have been.
We recognized the communist buzz words. As older and having learned all about it growing up, we were able to tell the younger generation who wanted to know, though we were ignored by the Democrat party, who has become what the younger people wanted to learn about. Many of us became teachers of history over the past few months. Seems to me that was what we were up against. Thankfully our prayers were heard and answered.
My Favorite article on why Trump won. America was sick and tired of the status quo.
open.substack.com/pub/bioclandestine/p/why-america-chose-trump?r=rb19m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
He won because of one issue lower taxes.