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<\/a><\/p>\nIn other words, men and women included, Trump gained with: young people, working-aged folks, college-educated minorities, black folks, Hispanics, Asians, all \u201cother race\u201d people, and working-class whites.<\/p>\n
Now consider this: These gainers are all folks who would have voted for President Lincoln in 1860. Think about what that implies.<\/p>\n
It got better. The next chart in the Times\u2019s analysis showed the paltry three groups that improved for Democrats\u2014the demographics that shifted away from Trump\u2019s populism\u2014and one group in particular stuck out like monkeypox:<\/p>\n
The first outrageous implication, which I won\u2019t dwell on because why pout about things you can\u2019t change, is that if it had gone the other way, had Republicans only gained with over-educated whites, the New York Times would be jumping up and down shouting \u201cwhite supremacy!!\u201d from the skyrises.<\/p>\n But which party is actually, by the numbers, the party of \u201cwhite supremacy?\u201d Trump exposed the Democrats. The only group who solidly slid away from Trump\u2019s populist MAGA movement was college-educated whites. Insufferable, pasty-skinned, wealthy coastal elites.<\/p>\n In other words, the same people who would have voted Democrat in 1860.<\/p>\n Nothing has changed! Nothing about Democrats has changed except, for a long time, the Democrats were able to fool minorities and working-class whites into thinking they\u2019d abandoned their elitist, slave-owning roots. They tricked the same groups that, down south, the Democrats had consistently fooled before the Civil War.<\/p>\n But the Democrats have not, in fact, changed. The numbers prove it, and the Times\u2019s analysis agreed. \u201cDemocrats,\u201d the article explained, \u201cbecame the party of institutions, the national security apparatus, norms and, ultimately, the status quo \u2014 not change.\u201d<\/p>\n Pre-Civil War, the Southern Democrats were institutionalists. They even euphemistically called slavery their \u201cpeculiar institution.\u201d Southern Democrats argued for preservation of the status quo. Southern Democrats claimed entitlement to enforcement of their elite norms.<\/p>\n The factors the Times attributed to Democrats\u2019 landslide loss in the recent election were also true of Democrats in 1860.<\/p>\n Master marketer Trump was able to, at least partly, rip off the Democrats\u2019 creaky, 150-year-old mask of deceit. As a result, Trump\u2019s near-orbit is crowded with former Democrats like Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert Kennedy, Jr.<\/p>\n ? Which brings us to the really bad news for Democrats. Unlike Trump\u2019s 2016 victory, this time his win signals a problem far beyond brilliant electoral gamesmanship. This time, Trump\u2019s win signals a permanent shift in voter preferences.<\/p>\n Democrats never saw it coming.<\/p>\n \u201cThis pattern,\u201d the Times glumly admitted, \u201chas no modern precedent. It suggests that the backlash against Democrats during 2021 and 2022 affected the political allegiance of millions of voters \u2014 and ultimately the electoral map.\u201d<\/p>\n In other words, MAGA is not a historical blip. It is a trend.<\/p>\n \u201cMr. Trump,\u201d the Times continued, \u201cflipped all of it around, weakening Democrats\u2019 bonds with working-class voters, as well as nonwhite and young ones.\u201d Trump\u2019s victory \u201chas shattered Democratic dreams of building a new majority with the rise of a new generation of young and nonwhite voters.\u201d<\/p>\n More than made-up fears the dark night of fascism has finally landed on the United States instead of on Europe, this, more than anything else, is what truly terrifies and deeply discombobulates the Democrats. The Democrat party\u2019s brand has reverted to the brand of big institutions, of aggressive preservation of elite norms, of sneering, arrogant academics and wealthy, slave-holding authoritarianism.<\/p>\n They\u2019ve been Bud-Lited. And because it is true, it will be next to impossible for the Democrats to shed their authentic brand without the kind of fundamental transformation that their current ossified, geriatric leaders are institutionally unable to effect.<\/p>\n ? It reminds me of my lawsuit against a municipal \u201cvaccinate or terminate\u201d mandate that I successfully stopped in 2021. In their brief, the city\u2019s lawyers invoked George Washington\u2019s smallpox inoculation mandate during the Revolutionary War. If it\u2019s good enough for the Father of the Country, they argued, it\u2019s good enough for us.<\/p>\n But at the hearing on my motion to enjoin the mandate, I turned their Father of the Country argument around on them. With the greatest respect, and not applying modern values in hindsight, I delicately pointed out that George Washington owned slaves.<\/p>\n In other words, long before the Constitution, George Washington considered people to be property, the equivalent of a herd of cattle, to be vaccinated in herds at their owner\u2019s inclination, regardless of the property\u2019s own desires.<\/p>\n I explained to the judge that, like George Washington, the city considered its employees to be property. Municipal employees were just a cattle-like herd to be immunized solely because the paternalistic city thought best.<\/p>\n The judge got it.<\/p>\n Looking back, it seems obvious that the mad scramble to respond to the pandemic\u2019s \u201cemergency\u201d forced Democrats to assume the position they\u2019ve always secretly held since before the Civil War: elite owners of human property, us, the dumb cows who\u2019d witlessly die of smallpox unless the herd was corraled and given its shots.<\/p>\n Vaccine mandates are the slave owners\u2019 prerogative.<\/p>\n And so President Trump successfully surfed the tide of resentment at Democrats\u2019 arrogant elitism and authoritarianism, riding the momentum to expose them at each grotesque level of their institutional incompetence.<\/p>\n ? CODA: A large section of the Times\u2019s analysis of Democrat woes, the way they were ultimately exposed, was correctly ascribed to the authoritarian excesses of the pandemic. \u201cActivists, academics and experts,\u201d the Times dolefully explained, \u201cpushed a sweeping response, from school shutdowns and mask mandates to diversity statements in hiring.\u201d<\/p>\n The article failed to mention the giant human cockroach in the room: vaccine mandates. But the sound of their insectile legs could be distinctly heard scuttling throughout the Times\u2019s analysis. Sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.<\/p>\n In short, paradoxically, the great suffering of the pandemic looks like one more thing for which we should be thankful this week.<\/p>\n Polls Nov 24 ’24<\/p>\n The Brilliant Jeff Childers has penned THE best analysis of the 2024 Presidential Election you are ever going to read : I am copying it all here and will save it on the sidebar as a testimony to what has … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"