• Trump Has Humiliated His Foes

    From Leroy N. Soetoro@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 16 22:47:21 2024
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    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/06/donald-trump-election- humiliated-his-foes-00187812

    Donald Trump didnÆt steal the 2024 election. He has won it ù clearly and comprehensively.

    Democrats warned that Trump and his supporters are prepared to hijack democracy. Now they must ruefully acknowledge another reality: The Trump movement, no matter how much this appalls opponents, is a powerful
    expression of democracy.

    Vice President Kamala Harris may have been an imperfect candidate ù the postmortems are vigorously underway on Wednesday morning ù but she
    delivered the essential Democratic argument perfectly well: The Trump
    Era was something to be scraped off the national shoe.

    Instead, there will be another helping placed on the national plate. His adversaries donÆt have to pretend it tastes good. But, for now, they
    need to eat it.

    It is not Harris alone who must reckon with the reality that Trump
    responded to the national mood more credibly for a larger share of
    Americans than she did. (For now, he is on track to win the popular vote
    as well as a solid Electoral College victory.) Trump is anathema to a
    solid majority of college graduates, including to large numbers of conservatives and traditional Republicans. These voters send their
    children to campuses where Trump revulsion is an article of faith. The
    news media broadly concluded that the gravity of TrumpÆs threat to
    American norms ù including the fact that he is a convicted felon ù meant
    doing away with weasel words like ômisledö and instead flatly called him
    a liar and a would-be despot.

    Tuesday night gave an answer to how much the politics of denunciation
    would dilute TrumpÆs support. And it posed a new question to his
    opponents: Now what?

    2024 surely must persuade the last doubters of something that was
    evident to Trump partisans from the moment he first sent his
    presidential ambitions aloft in 2015: He is not simply a celebrity
    candidate but the leader of a political movement.

    The distinction is important. Conventional politicians can see their
    careers wilt in a moment before controversies and setbacks. Movement
    leaders ù rare figures in American history ù draw their energy from deep wellsprings of cultural identity, grievance and aspiration. Like a
    hurricane over tropical waters, they actually grow stronger from
    controversies and setbacks.

    LetÆs illustrate the difference in typologies right here. Trump lost the
    2020 election and was impeached for interfering with the peaceful
    transfer of power, and all along never lost his grip on the Republican
    Party. Harris is now awaiting only the right moment to publicly
    acknowledge that she has lost the 2024 election. At the moment it looks
    likely she will not win any of the seven main swing states. How many of
    the Democrats who embraced her 48 hours ago will be ready to back her if
    she decides to run again in 2028? Almost certainly she is a one-and-done proposition.

    That Trump represents a movement ù rather than a flukish convergence of circumstances ù is what politicians as astute as former Senate Majority
    Leader Mitch McConnell missed about him.

    ôHe put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger,ö McConnell said of
    Trump in the hours after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. The
    quote, from the book ôThis Will Not Passö by my colleagues Jonathan
    Martin and Alexander Burns, made plain that McConnell thought Trump was
    done ù and that establishment Republicans like himself did not need to
    do anything more to facilitate the process. ôThe Democrats are going to
    take care of the son of a bitch for us.ö

    Well, no.

    McConnell will hear no taunting from me. A month after the 2020 election
    but a month before the riot, I wrote a column entitled, ôRelax, A Trump Comeback in 2024 Is Not Going To Happen.ö After January 6, a political operative I respect who had been skeptical of the column when it
    published called me with a word of praise: ôWell, that was one of the
    smarter columns you will ever write.ö Actually, it will count as one of
    the dumbest.

    But I did have a theory of the case for my view. It was that Trump
    represented a particular American type of politician ù from George
    Wallace to Joe McCarthy or, more benignly, Ross Perot. These figures tap authentic currents of grievance against elites and politics as usual.
    They typically have moments when they streak like a comet across the
    sky, causing conventional politicians to cower and tremble. Then these
    populist renegades rapidly fade away because they donÆt really resonate
    with the deeper dimensions of American character.

    In this view, the enthusiasm for such figures is the equivalent of a
    trip to Las Vegas. People get wild for a weekend, and even do things
    that might cause them shame in other circumstances. Then they return
    home to their ordinary lives.

    What this election shows is that, unlike what McConnell and I once
    believed, Trump profoundly does resonate with deeper dimensions of
    American character.

    What is now a central part of this character is what I have called the
    Contempt Paradox: People are drawn to Trump and the contempt he
    expresses toward his opponents, especially liberal politicians and the
    news media, precisely because of the contempt he draws in return. This
    is the through line of his politics.

    The implications are stark. For a significant portion of his supporters,
    he didnÆt win in 2016 in spite of his notorious remark to Access
    Hollywood about grabbing women by their private parts, or in 2024 in
    spite of his election denialism. He won in some measure because of these
    things ù and the indignation they inspired.

    Now, however, there is a new challenge for Trump. Much of his political
    energy comes from victimhood ù the perception that he is valiantly
    fighting back against entrenched forces. How does that work now, in
    light of the reality that he has unambiguously bested those forces? A
    movement politician has made himself the first politician to return to
    the White House after losing it since the 1892 election of Grover
    Cleveland, who was distinctly not a movement politician or a cult of personality.

    We are in for a new chapter of TrumpÆs career, and a new chapter in the American presidency.


    --
    November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
    forward to America being great again.

    The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and
    eradicated.

    We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
    stupid people won't be offended.

    Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.

    Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
    fiasco, President Trump.

    Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
    The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
    queer liberal democrat donors.

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  • From Siri Cruise@21:1/5 to Leroy N. Soetoro on Sat Nov 16 15:20:01 2024
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    Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
    Democrats warned that Trump and his supporters are prepared to hijack democracy. Now they must ruefully acknowledge another reality: The Trump movement, no matter how much this appalls opponents, is a powerful
    expression of democracy.

    We are a republic not a democracy.

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  • From 186283@ud0s4.net@21:1/5 to Leroy N. Soetoro on Sat Nov 16 23:27:44 2024
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    On 11/16/24 5:47 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/06/donald-trump-election- humiliated-his-foes-00187812

    Donald Trump didn’t steal the 2024 election. He has won it — clearly and comprehensively.

    Democrats warned that Trump and his supporters are prepared to hijack democracy. Now they must ruefully acknowledge another reality: The Trump movement, no matter how much this appalls opponents, is a powerful
    expression of democracy.


    And they CAN'T STAND that ! :-)

    Even worse, Trump isn't a threat to DEMOCRACY but
    instead to the further-left BUREAUCRACY and that's
    what scares them most. They'd got used to OWNING
    all those agencies - only way to push their BS
    along. Now ......

    Anyway, for better or worse, Trump and MAGA are more
    fully in charge than ever. Everything the Dems did
    just made it WORSE for them. They DON'T really "get
    it" either, which is great. They will keep flying
    the all-holy "Progressive" banner and KEEP losing
    more and more.

    "Progressive" all right - the herd 'progressing' over
    the cliff ....

    Anyway, after a solid four YEARS and over a BILLION
    spent, plus their MSM fellow travelers and endless
    3rd-worldish lawfare schemes - they STILL lost BIG.
    Beyond mere 'humiliation'.

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