1 week Ago By Firstpost
Donald Trump finally makes a phenomenal political comeback and wins the much-awaited American elections. Elections are won by those who work on real issues like fixing the economy, securing borders, immigration, taxes, business policies, foreign policy, tackling crime, making cities safe, protecting women’s spaces, etc. People don’t care about delusions of an elite class superimposed onto their realities.
Celebrity endorsements mean nothing as they are disconnected from reality. There are few things people hate more than sanctimonious lecturing by those who fly in private jets and ask people to use paper straws to “save the environment”. Honest citizens seem to not want their taxes to be used in funding foreign wars and regime change in other countries.
Most people are tired of warmongers and corrupt politicians in the government. American taxpayers’ dollars should be used for the development and progress of the United States of America and its people, is the verdict that seems to have been delivered. Democrats have been left wondering about why many people of colour voted against Kamala Harris.
They missed the idea that it is because a significant number of African-Americans and Latinos are against illegal immigration. There is a massive difference between people who work hard and achieve the American dream and those who cross borders illegally and mooch off government benefits that they were not entitled to in the first place because they were not in the country legally. The US immigration system needs reform, and people who entered the US legally to work sincerely sometimes have to wait a long time to get a Green Card and citizenship, while illegal immigrants involved in crimes get benefits from taxpayers’ dollars.
There is also suspicion that Democrats want to increase the number of illegal immigrants in the United States because it serves their political interests while jeopardising the safety of American citizens. In addition to a large number of Latinos and Blacks voting for Donald Trump, a significant percentage of Jewish people also voted for him. The last year has seen a rise of antisemitism in the United States; there have been many protests across college campuses showing support for not just Palestine but Hamas, with the ISIS flag seen on college campuses.
Many members of the college administration are Democrats. Nothing was done to ensure the safety of Jewish students, and their concerns were ignored by their college administrations. Another issue that was handled egregiously by Joe Biden was COVID-19.
The US government’s decisions, like mask and vaccine mandates during COVID, were not widely accepted. Mask and vaccine mandates were not scientifically backed, evidence of which came out later. The Biden administration and Anthony Fauci coerced people into taking vaccines that were not tested for long-term side effects.
Many people who refused to comply with the vaccine mandate lost their jobs. The Biden administration curtailed people’s freedoms, implemented vaccine mandates for federal workers, censored doctors and healthcare providers who spoke out against the COVID vaccines, and put travel restrictions on the unvaccinated. Those funded by big pharma were promoted, and those who refused to take untested vaccines with side effects were labelled anti-vaxxers.
Many people suffered from serious side effects of the vaccines. Those who spoke out against the vaccines were shamed, alienated, and termed anti-science. This is the same party that has stood by women’s rights for late-term elective abortion but does not believe in bodily autonomy and freedom of choice when it comes to vaccines.
Throughout the Democratic Party’s campaign, “diversity”, “inclusion”, and “race” were mentioned more than merit. Republican voters were called derogatory terms like garbage, racists, and Nazis by the Democrats. Racial incitement served their political agenda and distracted from their failures as a government for a while, but it was not enough to win eventually.
The legacy media, which often functioned as a mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, parroted the same agenda and was quick to shut down legitimate criticism of Joe Biden’s presidency, leaving people feeling unheard. In fact, the fact that Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts during his campaign was hardly covered with any seriousness in the mainstream. The disconcertment led to a mass of people moving to purportedly more neutral grounds, such as X, formerly known as Twitter.
The tea leaves were read by some in time, and The Washington Post did not endorse a presidential candidate this time and stated they also would not be endorsing presidential candidates in future elections. The owner of The Washington Post , Jeff Bezos, said it was a principled decision in a step to reduce political bias. Bezos also posted on X, congratulating President-elect Trump on his decisive victory and wishing him success.
In that sense, some of the blame for Kamala Harris’ defeat can be claimed to be the defeat of the legacy left-wing media. Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, and since then the platform, now known as X, has been a top source for news, freer speech, opinions, and debate. Elon’s endorsement and contribution were a huge boost to the Trump-Vance campaign.
President Trump also acknowledged Elon’s contribution in his victory speech. Despite a lack of support from Hollywood, Donald Trump did receive celebrity endorsements from Buzz Aldrin and Joe Rogan. Vice President-elect JD Vance was a guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast recently, where they discussed COVID vaccines, Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI) admission programs in Ivy League universities, abortion, transgender issues, and the dangers of Islamist influence, among other issues.
Donald Trump himself was also a guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast. They discussed the Russia-Ukraine conflict, 2020 elections, and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in the three-hour-long interview. Contrary to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’ garbled stance on various policies, Donald Trump and JD Vance’s more honest and clear political insight seemed to have been appreciated by potential voters.
The Trump-Vance team ran an excellent campaign assuring people they would fix the economy, secure borders, eliminate taxes on social security and overtime pay, increase tariffs on goods imported from China to help protect American businesses and American labour, promote products manufactured in the US, and strengthen American industries. Kamala Harris tried hard to appeal to voters by using her Indian and African ethnicity instead of talking about concrete solutions to problems that working-class Americans face. Her manifesto did not differ much from the Biden administration’s policies.
That meant continued irresponsible federal spending, inflation, increased national debt, higher interest rates, open-border policy, and unfeasible and ineffective energy policy. With justice systems engaged in preventing large-scale voter fraud and enhanced transparency, the Trump campaign’s idea of making it “too big to rig” worked. Election integrity was also maintained with over 230,000 poll observers and workers and 3,500 attorneys as a part of the operation.
He won the swing states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada. Illegal immigration, housing affordability, inflation, and taxes affected more voters than DEI and enforced transgender inclusion did. In Pennsylvania, the reclusive, pious, and simple Amish also came out in large numbers to vote against the Democrats.
The Biden government’s overreach involving agriculture was one of the major reasons cited by them for this. Purple states are often key to a decisive victory in the presidential elections. The election result reflects the voters’ frustration with the Democratic Party.
Americans interviewed said they were tired of the incumbent administration’s corruption, incompetence, hypocrisy, and identity politics. The democratic mandate proves that the American people have rejected the race-baiting, divisive, and somewhat dystopian agenda of the Democratic Party. Will the Democrats learn from this election and introspect, or will they continue to hector the American voters until more of their representatives turn towards the other camp, much like Robert F Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard did? Only 2028 will tell.
Anindita Sharma is an amateur student of geopolitics, foreign affairs, cultural diplomacy and Indian affairs. She is a columnist on such matters of interest and is quickly gathering bylines in Indian publications. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely those of the author.
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