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The American people have spent the past four years being told by their elites (and the rest of the world) that they had committed something close to a historic crime by voting for Donald Trump. That they needed to repudiate the man and expiate their sin and never again dare to think outside the lines laid down for them. Mr Trump may still narrowly lose but these Americans have extended a proudly raised single finger to their self-appointed masters.
Mr Trump secured more votes than any Republican in history in the midst of a global pandemic and economic crisis like none in modern history.
And, no, it isn’t further proof of how racist half of America is. According to the exit polls Mr Trump won more than a quarter of the non-white vote, the highest share for a Republican candidate since 1960. The only large demographic group among whom the president lost ground was white voters. It’s an odd sort of white supremacy that appeals to more minority voters than have ever voted before. In fact Mr Trump’s populist message — defending American interests in the world, promoting jobs at home, restricting immigration, getting tough on crime — resonates with voters of all kinds.
All this points to the biggest winner from Tuesday. As Mr Biden nudges ahead thanks to the late arrival of hundreds of thousands of ballots piling up in Democratic-controlled cities in the key states, the political landscape looks very different from how it looked days ago.
Even if they lose the presidency, America’s conservatives can emerge from this week reinvigorated. They have a Republican Party that has found a path to winning over large numbers of minority voters. They have a Senate that will define the legislative and policy limits and agenda for at least the next two years.
They have perhaps a chastened Democratic Party — under a caretaker president — that may have to eschew the radicalism that seemed in the ascendant. They have a Supreme Court with a conservative majority now secure for years to come. They no longer have to tolerate and justify the antics of a man who was, for all his unique skills, too often personally rebarbative and almost wilfully divisive.
And they have the elements of a new populist conservatism, developed over the past four years in response to changed political and economic realities, that can form the basis of a lasting governing ideal.
They have a Supreme Court with a conservative majority now secure for years to comeJust imagine if ACB hadn't been confirmed or pushed through!
FuckCCP89 saysThey have a Supreme Court with a conservative majority now secure for years to comeJust imagine if ACB hadn't been confirmed or pushed through!
The American people have spent the past four years being told by their elites (and the rest of the world) that they had committed something close to a historic crime by voting for Donald Trump. That they needed to repudiate the man and expiate their sin and never again dare to think outside the lines laid down for them. Mr Trump may still narrowly lose but these Americans have extended a proudly raised single finger to their self-appointed masters.
The radical left. They were so looking forward to a Biden landslide and control of Congress to match their control of much of the cultural, media and corporate establishment. Their hope of a decisive shift to the left, in taxes, public spending, climate policy, healthcare, law and order, and above all in a redrawing of America’s judiciary to ensure legal compliance with the progressive world view, remains a distant dream.
The Democrats failed to retake the Senate, as they had assumed they would, and they actually lost seats in the House of Representatives as the American people, in their great wisdom, declined to anoint one party to seize control of the government. Even if Mr Biden wins the White House almost nothing will get done without the consent of Mitch McConnell’s Senate Republicans.
The biggest loser should be, but probably won’t, the morally certain, arrogant, ubiquitous world view pumped out without hesitation or pause by an establishment that holds in contempt those deplorable people who would dare to challenge it. Its creed of secular, progressive globalism dismisses as bigoted and intolerable the idea of national sentiment and adherence to traditional social values.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/gerard-baker-we-know-who-the-losers-are-long-before-the-final-vote-is-counted-x8f2msrx2
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