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It wasn't supposed to be like this.
Pollsters and commentators have promised a close race in the 2024 presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and current President-elect Donald Trump. Ultimately, however, it was a fiasco, paving the way for the Republican Party to seize generational power.
Our country has not had a truly dominant political party since 1994, when Americans signed the Republican Party of America, ending 40 years of Democratic control of the House of Representatives.
Analysis from a major board: Kamala Harris has a 'significant' lower approval rating among young voters
Since then, we have had a 50-50 political society, with neither side willing to do anything as drastic as Franklin D. Roosevelt accomplished in the 1930s and Lyndon B. They were unable to simultaneously maintain control of Congress, the Presidency, and the courts long enough to enact change. Johnson did so in the 1960s.
A pro-Trump Latino event held in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 3, 2024. (Hannah Rae Lambert/Fox News Digital)
FDR's alphabet soup of federal agencies and LBJ's welfare state are still with us. They have this permanence precisely because they were enshrined over long periods of Democratic administrations. Today, it may finally be time for Republicans to return the favor.
For pollsters, the biggest takeaway from Trump's humiliating victory is not how much he won, but who he won with.
Trump won a staggering 46% of the Hispanic vote, an astonishing 35% of black men in Texas, and even won first-time voters, according to exit polls, but his support expanded in 2020. He was defeated by President Joe Biden. Among Gen Z men in their 20s.
As Biden likes to say, “This is not your grandfather's Republican Party.”
Even suburban white women, perhaps his Achilles heel, have thrown their weight behind Trump. That's a good thing because it means you won't have to lie to your husband about voting, as Democrats have suggested to frightened women across the country.
Since the beginning of its political rise, four issues have driven President Trump's populist Republican Party: strong borders, energy independence, anti-globalism, and fighting the culture wars.
All four issues have majority support in the country, and if Mr. Trump works with a Republican Congress to prioritize four core New Right principles, the electorate will grow and become more diverse. There is reason to think it will continue to reward them with increasing coalitions.
Add to this the conservative 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court that President Trump could solidify if either Justice Clarence Thomas or Samuel Alito retire, and you've got a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court that will leave you with a broken deep state bureaucracy. You'll have all the tools you need to dismantle it.
The election victory gives Republicans a chance to secure more conservative justices on the Supreme Court. File: United States Supreme Court (front row left and right) Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, (back row left and right) Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson pose for an official portrait in the East Chamber of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on October 7, 2022. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
The Democratic Party is clearly the major stumbling block to the generational strength of the Republican Party, but Harris' humiliating defeat has left the party in disarray and, worse, the coalition increasingly unraveling.
Don't get me wrong, Harris lost this election primarily because she refused to take clear positions on key issues, but she also did a lot of things like Israel vs. Hamas, fracking vs. environmentalism, and men's Why did Harris lose when the Democratic Party itself is divided on so many issues, including play? What is the difference between women's sports and basic sanity?
The problem wasn't that Democrats didn't tell us who Harris was, it was that they didn't actually decide who they wanted her to be.
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I'm old enough now to remember that after President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, there was an endless ocean of ink about the idea that the Republican Party would never win again. Essentially, it's a liberal version of the very column you're reading.
In Obama's case, especially in his second term, he and his party moved too far to the left, alienating the very core Democratic voters, such as the white working class that would later elect Trump. This is a warning to Republicans.
Trump and the Republican Party must avoid the bait-and-switch tactics seen, for example, with Obama, who lied and began to “evolve” his position by lying that he opposed same-sex marriage based on his deep Christian faith. Must be.
If Republicans can stick to the four key platform items that expanded their coalition: secure our borders, bring jobs home, start lowering gas prices, and confront biological realities and a color-blind society, we can do just that. A new Republican Party can be held together.
Since the beginning of its political rise, four issues have driven President Trump's populist Republican Party: strong borders, energy independence, anti-globalism, and fighting the culture wars.
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Donald Trump won't run for president again, but some Republicans will within four years. And whether it's Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, Gov. Ron DeSantis or anyone else, Trump has a chance to hand them the keys to the party. The power to fundamentally change America for the better.
This is a golden opportunity for Republicans, but it doesn't come around often. We'll see soon if they can keep it up.
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