So a few notes to make, just cuz I’m in the mood.
-Trump did make some small in roads with minority voters. Clearly this was not enough. And it came indirectly or otherwise at the cost of his working class white support in the Midwest. The Republican Party can not win with Cubans and anti communist Venezuelans. It simply can’t. Trump’s gains in the black community were marginal. Not bad for a Republican but it will never be enough. Peeling away 10-12% of the black vote will not win elections.
-The Jared Kushner plan/2012 Autopsy, basically republicans need to ditch their loyal supporters for minorities was implemented. It has been shown to be a failure.
-The Republican Party does not have any real loyalty in the rust belt. Trump promised economic restoration and didn’t deliver. The republicans will never be a working class party. They are too bound to conventional economics of their donors. Trump won by promising not to be a Republican economically. He was one.
-I hate to use Pol slang, but it is somewhat of a cope to say “well we kept the Senate!”, yes we did but do you expect Harris will let that stop her? Executive orders will be implemented and unlike with Trump she will have the federal bureaucracy behind her. Obviously there are limits to that but the democrats will work night and day to prevent any Republican resurgence.
-Republicans may gain the house in 2022. They may not. I do not personally expect it to matter too much. As the republicans have shown themselves to useless in actually achieving anything. They didn’t get rid of Section 230, or assist trump with the border wall. It’s as if their terrified of actually wielding power.
-I expect Republican energy to be divided and wasted in 2024. The Democrats will likely win a second term. There will be some “trumpian” candidates that are perhaps more edgy than Mitt Romney, but none will win any support in the rust belt, and the energy will otherwise be dissipated amongst various factions in the party.
-The notion the US is unified or has any common purpose or values ought to be shattered for anyone with eyes to see. Neither the liberals hope of a nation awokened or Q’s silly nonsense about a trump landslide have proven to have any analytical worth. The question is how much longer can this stretched breaking tent called the USA be held together? Or will one side triumph over the other? I suspect the latter.
-Anyways, I do think there is some room for optimism. The trump presidency has lessons to teach us. These include:
-the federal bureaucracy and deep State are not our friends. They align ideologically with Neo liberalism and its subordinate ideologies.
-Being a populist requires actually governing as one.
-To fight the first item on the list, loyalists must be installed and resistance purged quickly and decisively. Else it will either depose your or render your agenda ineffectual.
-Liberals and leftists are as vicious as they are childish. They do not consider losses legitimate or believe that their enemies have beliefs that should be respected. After all racism be bad yo!
-the media is in total alignment, anyone who wishes to claim the media is unbiased now is a liar. Or a fool. But even fools ought to know by now, the media considers itself a moral guardian and believed it has the right to tell the public what to believe and think. It coordinates and works with the rest of the system.
-Most of the Republican Party, the Lincoln project etc... is in total alignment with the above. It is also not our friend.
The Trump era has revealed the true nature of our enemies, and our supposed “allies”. It has shown what sort of governance works and how it can be obstructed. It has shown the power of delusion, and the efficacy of lies so long as they have official imprimatur.
We must take these lessons into the future.