He could have warned Kamala Harris. On January 6 of this year – the third anniversary of the mob storming the US Capitol – I stood in line in a cold parking lot outside Clinton High School in Iowa to hear Donald Trump speak.
The people next to me weren’t sporting Make America Great Again hats or muttering darkly about a “stolen” election. They were ordinary men and women, concerned about their families, their jobs and the direction of their country.
“I’m not a Trump worshiper,” Richard, an Iraq War veteran, told me. ‘I know the problems with him. But I served my country. If I believed he was guilty of insurrection, I would not vote for him.
Harris wouldn’t have listened to Richard. Neither would most of his Democratic colleagues. Because they never do. Trump will not return to the White House because he ran a brilliant campaign. Or because the United States has decided to embrace “fascism.” He has won – as I predicted he would – because the voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and other swing states who voted en masse for him are tired of being patronized, infantilized and treated like fools.
In 2016, ordinary Americans refused to play the role they were assigned by Hillary Clinton and the liberal establishment in perpetuating the Clinton/Bush dynasty. They told the Democratic and Republican elites: ‘Enough!’ And millions of them voted for Trump.
Trump won because voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and other swing states who voted en masse for him are tired of being patronized, infantilized and treated like fools, writes DAN HODGES.
For a brief period, when the magnitude of the rejection became clear, it seemed as if the right lessons had been learned. Joe Biden, that old Irish officer, put aside the politically correct nonsense and let a blue-collar army carry him back to the Oval Office in the 2020 election.
But then the liberal elite tried again. With Trump weakened and tarnished after his supporters’ clumsy “coup” attempt in January 2021, his enemies chose to martyr him. After having punished him for threatening to ‘lock her up’, they tried to lock her up him with a series of increasingly outlandish accusations.
After warning anyone who would listen that Trump was “a threat to democracy,” they attempted to remove him from the ballot in a series of Democratic-leaning states. At that moment, the American people began to agitate.
And what did the elite do? When Biden wavered and it became clear they would need another candidate, who did they turn to? Another ‘Average Joe’ Who Could Mobilize American Workers?
No. They looked for another liberal woman they could use as a battering ram against that frustratingly stubborn “glass ceiling.”
So, with Trump running amok, sparking fears that immigrants would eat Americans’ pet cats, Democrats opted for the candidate who had promised to introduce an amnesty for illegal immigrants. While voters – both men and women – told all the pollsters that the most important issues to them were the cost of living and the economy, the liberal establishment deployed a contender who built his entire strategy on telling them that they were wrong and what they really wanted. it mattered. the majority was “reproductive rights.”
While Trump closed out his campaign working at McDonald’s and jumping (or tripping) in the cab of a dump truck, Harris flew to New York to appear in a skit with her liberal love buddies on the long-running television show Saturday Night Live. .
If Donald Trump had commissioned Dr. Frankenstein to go to his lab and build the opponent he could most easily defeat in this election, Kamala Harris would have been the result.
When she was selected, her liberal allies lashed out like vengeful furies at anyone who suggested she was a ‘DEI hire’: selected based on politically correct criteria of ‘diversity, equity and inclusion.’
But that was how she was perceived, especially by many. black Americans.
Harris’ campaign had dreamed of a “late surge,” a “wall of women” and an “earthquake of youth” that would carry her to the Oval Office. It was all just a liberal fantasy.
They were watching when Harris became Biden’s 2020 vice presidential nominee, following demands from his liberal base that a Black woman “balance the ticket.” When Barack Obama lectured black Americans, telling them that they had to vote for Harris out of racial solidarity, they knew full well that the only reason they had been elected was because the old white guy didn’t know what day of the week it was.
None of that worked. Harris’ campaign had dreamed of a “late surge,” a “wall of women” and an “earthquake of youth” that would carry her to the Oval Office. It was all just a liberal fantasy.
Now Trump has won again. And we all have to prepare for what comes next. But no matter what, his victory was handed to him by a self-proclaimed progressive elite that refuses to learn its lesson. Maybe this time they will learn. Or maybe it’s too late.