Trump’s win is a victory for the non-brainwashed Americans
US voters have proven they can still judge reality by what it is, despite all of the establishment’s efforts
By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English.
By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English.
rachelmarsden.com Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, November 6, 2024. © Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Blowout alert! I guess average Americans don’t like being infantilized. At least Trump trusted them to be able to take a joke, unlike his opponents. So when’s Liz Cheney’s date with the firing squad already? Are we done yet with the anti-Trump fake news now that the majority of voters see through it? Probably not, huh? With the exception of those in a handful of states, Americans united to send former US President Donald Trump back to the White House and handed him carte blanche with Republican control of the Senate and likely the House as well. Not bad for a guy the establishment tried to brand as the reincarnation of Hitler. Did Hitler also have giant Israeli flags at his Madison Square Garden rally? Or hang out at the Jewish wall in Israel or with Hebrew-inscribed tablets in a yarmulke? That should have been the Democrats’ first sign that their branding attempt was off. Yet, just like the fitting title of the upcoming Harris biography co-authored by Chelsea Clinton: She Persisted. Maybe next time, instead of persisting with their idiocy, they’ll come up with an actual agenda and a candidate who addresses questions and issues on point rather than punting them in favor of talking points and platitudes that leave voters guessing as to what to even expect if ever elected – beyond the usual establishment status quo, which, of course, sucks. Just ask the overwhelming majority of Americans who say that the country is headed in the wrong direction. Presumably, the Democrats figured that they could make a whole campaign about abortion rights – against a guy who, frankly, doesn’t actually seem too interested in the topic, which was recently re-opened by the courts. It’s telling that, according to CNN exit polls, Harris won the female vote by five points less than Biden did in 2020 and three points less than even Hillary Clinton did against Trump in 2016, when abortion wasn’t even an issue. Read more Certain categories of voters really capture the story of this election. The first is white women with college degrees, 11% more of whom voted for Harris than for Biden in 2020. Institutional establishment brainwashing and virtue signaling apparently works more effectively on well-formatted brains, female or otherwise. The message from the party hacks and their celebrity surrogates was that abortion was really all that should matter to women, reducing them to one-dimensional caricatures of actual human beings. But it turns out that many more women than they figured don’t like being talked down to and treated as little more than a walking uterus – even by other women. Which would explain why white women with no degree voted overwhelmingly for Trump by 25 points over Harris, and even voters of color with no degree, generally considered a lock by Democrats, still voted by 14 points less for Harris than for Biden four years ago. The youngest voters, aged 18-29, who you’d figure would be most directly affected by reproductive rights issues, either as women themselves or their white-knighting male counterparts who were constantly told by Democrats that they had to cast their vote primarily in support of the reproductive rights of the women in their life, actually ended up shifting their vote to Trump by 11 points compared to 2020. The bottom line is that women living real lives with a multitude of concerns and interests don’t like being paternalized, which is what the Democrats constantly do. Just because it’s a woman and her surrogates who are doing the talking down to them, doesn’t make it any more appealing. It just makes you a useful idiot of the patriarchal establishment – the same one that’s trying to emotionally manipulate women’s electoral choices to maintain the status quo that disadvantages women in every other possible way that actually matters to all of their lives, from cost of living to foreign wars in which their sons are sent to die and other countries’ sons are subjected to the same. All so Uncle Sam can turn a profit. It’s the guy you keep calling a misogynist who wants to take him on. Read more Speaking of pricey wars, CNN exit polls also show that about two-thirds of voters say the economy is bad even compared with 2020, when the country was grappling with the fallout from the Covid fiasco. That shift benefited Trump. It’s no wonder when he’s the same guy who’s made it clear that he wants to square away foreign wars and focus on the American economy. He’s even suggested that he’d rather just strongarm allies into outright buying American weapons with their own money, threatening to kill off NATO if they don’t rather than ginning up actual war (or persist with the current ones) as a way to justify spending increasingly more of America’s own tax money as the Biden administration has done. Harris has said nothing to suggest that she’s in any position to challenge the establishment machine that’s been running the country since Biden’s been doing his Weekend at Bernie’s routine and would have remained largely in place with a Harris victory. And while Trump may not have all the answers, at least he’s expressed a clear will. In that sense, he mirrors voters themselves, who mostly don’t know what the answers are – just that they know things must change. The bottom line is that while Trump was trash talking everyone from neocons like Liz Cheney and her Iraq War architect father, the illustrious Dick, both of whom came out in favor of Harris, he was saying what average people fed up with war were actually thinking. But establishment virtue signalers cynically tried to capitalize on his choice of vivid rhetoric to suggest that he’d go full-blown Benito Mussolini on his opponents if he got back into office. Just like the last time that he was in office for a whole four years, I guess? The only one actually taking any gunshots to the head has been Trump. Read more It also turns out that people like a good laugh, still know what a joke is, and aren’t buying into the Democrat and establishment hysteria that takes people for idiots in pretending not to. Democrats and their proxies were convinced that a joke by a professional comedian about Puerto Rico at a late-campaign Trump rally would tank the Latino vote. Instead, Trump ended up winning it among Latino men by ten points. And even Latina women shifted to Trump in this election by 15 points compared with 2020. America isn’t divided. At least not as much as we’ve been led to believe. Normal, average, non-brainwashed people of all stripes, who can still judge reality by what they see and experience in their daily life rather than what they’re told to think by the establishment’s Hollywood and corporate media minstrels and court jesters, have fully availed themselves of the opportunity to express themselves in the most democratic way possible. And their message is that Trump isn’t the radical – the establishment is. The silent majority that feels increasingly marginalized, if not outright censored, has found a voice in Trump that resonates with their own. Now it’s the establishment’s turn to spend the next four years figuring out what they can do to actually serve the average voter rather than spending all their time indulging themselves and their attempts to leverage America’s diversity to divide it self-servingly. The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
