Donald Trump's landslide victory over Kamala Harris means the former president has become the next president, but as a fellow New Yorker from Queens, the next White House resident has also earned a new title. I think so.
“The Teflon Don” has just proven that nothing thrown at him by the Democratic Party or its allies in the media, pop culture, and corporate America will stick. Trump is not a notorious mafia boss John Gotti His track record of defeating court cases earned him that nickname. To the pundit class, he's far worse. They sought to portray the former president as a fascist and Nazi-sympathetic wannabe dictator. they are still trying.
If this election has taught us anything, it's that the pundit class is far too arrogant, self-righteous, emotional, narcissistic, curious, and underwhelming the average American. It means you don't understand.
Democrats have spent months arguing that Trump is a threat to democracy. They weaponized the legal system and used the law to keep him out of the White House. The assassin's bullet did not kill him. They called his selection for vice president “bizarre.” Nothing could stop the inevitable.
This is not to say that Trump was the perfect candidate. He upset his base many times during the campaign, from criticizing the state's abortion bill to publicly attacking conservative supporters of Project 2025. Some social conservatives also did not like the party's policies. decision Give Amber Rose, the atheist and pro-abortion influencer who once led the “Slut Walk” in Los Angeles, a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention. Her appearance came around the time the party decided what to do next. soften It includes language about important social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.
But through it all, voters chose their man, even though he spent the campaign being vilified as a hateful bigot who wanted to take away a woman's “right” to kill her baby. Democrats use race and gender as carrots to attract people to their history-making campaigns and as sticks to instill decency in wayward voters they believe they support. I thought it could be done.
They failed to understand what remained of the most multiracial, multigenerational working-class coalition in recent Republican history.
While Harris' surrogates are busy lecturing black men who are considering sitting out the election or — God forbid — voting for Trump, Latino The men were creating a “red wave” on the right. In 2016, Trump received 28% of Latino voters; In 2020 he earned 32%. According to 2024 exit polls, he won support Support from 46% of Latino voters, including 55% of men.
Perhaps the progressives who tried to shove “Latino” down the throats of Dominicans in the Bronx, Cubans in South Florida, and Mexicans in Texas don't really understand these Americans, and in 2024 may still assume that all “brown” people feel “oppressed.”
Trump also won 20% of the black male vote. In Pennsylvania, 26% black men I voted for Trump. Feminists and perverted men clearly overestimated their ability to use organized shaming campaigns to control “disobedient” black men.
Maybe the suburban soccer moms realized that anyone who can't define “woman” doesn't have women's best interests at all. white woman In the final days of the campaign, progressives targeted ads designed to divide couples by putting families ahead of Democrats. Nationally, Trump won 53% of whites. woman including 69% in Georgia and 60% in Texas.
If this election has taught us anything, it's that the pundit class is far too arrogant, self-righteous, condescending, emotional, neurotic, narcissistic, curious, and average. It means that you can't understand Americans. People who make a living hurling accusations of “–isms” and “–phobias” at strangers are being exposed for their mediocre thinkers.
They do not understand the world outside of their superficial identities and the dynamics of oppressor and oppressor. I recently had a conversation with a progressive woman in education who explained that social conservatives are opposed to pro-life ideas even though about 40% of the babies aborted in America are black. He said it was only because he feared a decline in white birth rates. The pundit class lives in a bubble so thick that neither data nor electoral defeat can penetrate it.
I'm cautiously optimistic about what a Trump victory will mean for the social issues I care about most. A party large enough to accommodate both Caitlyn Jenner and Franklin Graham would scare away the disaffected liberals who voted for Trump in this election and sway the president-elect's social conservative base. There is a possibility of taking such a policy position.
There is plenty of time to talk about MAGA management strategies. But this election was about a Teflon-treated don and voters who didn't care what crazy politicians, Hollywood perverts, ill-informed entertainers, and media scumbags had to say about him. Americans sent a loud message to the elites that power resides in America. peoplenot the self-proclaimed god-kings of a culture that thinks it has control over us.
