This was one wild election year.
- The Democrats ran a candidate that hadn’t received a single primary vote – as the only person who could “preserve democracy.”
- The Republicans ran a convicted felon, who had been President before – and was impeached twice during his first term.
- The Democrat spent over $1 billion in under 3 months on her campaign, with celebrity concerts for her followers.
- The Republican campaigned from a McDonald’s drive through window and a garbage truck.
- There were multiple assassination attempts on the Republican – all thankfully unsuccessful.
- Our public servants in the DoJ formally announced their support for election fraud when they sued the state of Virginia to keep non-citizens on the voter rolls.
Despite all of that, the citizens ignored the gaslighting, fear mongering, and legal shenanigans to make their position abundantly clear on November 5. Here are a few of my observations.
Hate is not a viable political platform
Americans want solutions and they know when things aren’t working – even when the experts say otherwise. No amount of calling one’s opponent fascists and Nazis makes up for the cost of groceries, increasing danger on our streets, and approaching global instability. Policies and results matter.
The alphabet soup news media is spent
The legacy news media made every attempt to drag Harris over the finish line.
- They ran negative stories – many completely made up – about Donald Trump 24/7.
- They talked endlessly about the “hope and joy” of the Harris campaign.
- They used biased polling to project the inevitability of a Kamala Harris administration.
- They conducted play acting interviews with Kamala Harris, in which the questions and answers were scripted.
- In the one Presidential debate, the moderators rather than Kamala Harris debated Donald Trump.
Yet it all failed because propaganda only works when it is credible and the legacy news agencies have spent 8 years burning theirs to the ground.
Americans rejected radical ideologies
Woke is just another word for delusional (i.e. denial of reality). Joe Biden gave us a four-year test drive of every screwy idea the radicals could come up with. Americans have not been amused. They understand that reality is not defined by wishful thinking.
- Sex is not a choice.
- Fomenting hatred doesn’t atone for past sins.
- Self-governance is incompatible with moral relativism.
- Government spending only stimulates government growth.
- Meaningful borders are essential for civil order.
Forcing Americans to accept the ideologies of the radicals isn’t social justice – it’s social destruction.
Weaponization of the government is a national crisis
Exit polling surprised everyone when it showed that voters were more concerned about democracy (i.e. self-governance) than the economy. The MSM talking heads beamed with projections that this was a good omen for Harris – who had campaigned that her opponent would destroy democracy.
But surprise, the “threat to democracy” voters chose Donald Trump. They see the actual threat to be:
- Government censorship of free speech,
- Loss of religious liberty,
- Fraudulent election, and
- Lawfare targeting of political opponents.
With Trump’s landslide victory, he now has something he didn’t have in 2016, a clear mission. His voters want him to return the federal government to its intended role as a servant to – rather than overlords of – the citizens.
Demographics is not destiny
Voting patterns changed dramatically in 2024. This may or may not have been a realignment election. Only time will tell. But Donald Trump put on a master class in campaigning which every Republican should study. He campaigned as every President should govern: working his tail off for every American, in every state, regardless of where they fall on the intersectionality Venn diagram. As the voting shows, he moved every single state further to the political right – even the deep blue ones.
Americans are still Americans
Things like prosperity, freedom, family values, and equal justice under law still matter to us. We’ve been telling our leadership for years, that the country is on the wrong path. Yet Washington remains doggedly fixed on the same heading. So, this year we decided to make a steering change – a big one. We’re sending a disrupter to Washington – for the second time – but this time with a mandate.
Author Bio: John Green is a retired engineer and political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He spent his career designing complex defense systems, developing high performance organizations, and doing corporate strategic planning. He is a contributor to American Thinker, The American Spectator, and the American Free News Network. He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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