The election of Donald Trump as President is wonderful news, and I will have plenty to say about my expectations for his administration in dealing with anti-carbon regulations, the climate scam, EV mandates, woke capital, etc in coming months.
Here at Ace’s place, political discussions regarding “the horse race,” election results, polls, and such are usually not my lane, but with the excitement of Election Day still with us all, I am going to make an exception with some thoughts and observations about the results of the November 2024 election.
“Trust me, I’m Lying”
Kamala attempted the “Trust me, I’m Lying” gambit re Israel’s war against its attackers, but it blew up on her, as that stategy often does.
Despite her rather open hostility to Israel and her clear support for those who mean to harm Israel, Kamala offered up a few insincere “wink wink” words of support to Israel.
In a post-October 7 world, Jewish voters weren’t fooled, and they abandoned her in record number based on her proven antagonism to Israel. Meanwhile, American Muslims didn’t understand that Kamala’s stated support for Israel was a classic, “Trust me I’m lying moment.” They believed her, and they withheld their support. Some cast votes for Trump, but there were also lots of protest votes to third party candidates.
Dearborn, Michigan is Muslim-majority. 88% of its vote went to Biden in 2020, but Kamala got only 36% of the vote in 2024.
Hispanic South Texas Has Flipped Bright Red
The great Democrat hope of turning Texas blue always assumed Mexican-Americans would remain loyal Democrats, despite the party getting taken over by the Women of Whole Foods, with their radical agenda and their sneering contempt for blue-collar workers. Affluent, liberal, white women fetishizing Hispanic Texans as gender-fluid “Latinx” probably didn’t help either.
As recently as the 2016 Presidential election, all of South Texas, which is predominantly Tejano / Mexican-American, was solid blue, as shown immediately below.
But this week, Donald Trump swept nearly every South Texas county. More importantly he did sweep all the densly populated areas of South Texas. The four southernmost Texas counties, known as The Rio Grande Valley, all went to Trump, as did Webb County, which is home to Laredo.
Ponder this, Starr County in southernmost Texas is 97% Hispanic and went for Hillary Clinton by 60 percentage points in 2016 – 79% for Clinton and 19% for Trump.
But in 2024, Trump won the county, 58% to 42%! In eight years there was a 76% electoral swing in Trump’s favor.
Expect the Left to Abandon the Flag Again
Several of the sterotypical Democrat AWFLs that I grew up with or am related to engaged in “Take Back the Flag” social media activism this campaign. I was fine with it, as I wish for the American flag to represent all Americans, and I’ve been saddened by the spitting hatred so many Democrats have had for the flag, especially as they rallied around the Kapernick-era flag-hatred.
But…I also noticed that every one of the flag photos they posed with had a “disclaimer,” by which I mean they would never just hang the Stars and Stripes. It always had to be accompanied by an LGBTQ flag, or some Harris-Walz signs, or something to alert their neighbors that they aren’t the same as icky MAGA flag-wavers.
Now that the election is over, I want to see if those flags remain up, but without all the Democrat political signaling. Actually, I know the answer. The American flags (with their accompanying Democrat identifiers) have already given way on Facebook to black circles of protest.
Are the Walls Closing in Yet?
How long until the propaganada media resumes their daily dose of “more bad news for Donald Trump”? Does this start even before his inauguration?
Shouldn’t Leftists be Fleeing from America’s Hitler?
Related, if the lefties who were shrieking about Trump being Hitler and imposing an authoritarian dictatorship really believed what they were saying, would they be posting online videos of themselves screaming or would they be fleeing for their lives.
It’s almost as if they didn’t believe a word they were shouting.
Is NeverTrump Going to Accuse Trump of Underperforming Again in the Greal Lakes States?
I have unfollowed pretty much every NeverTrumper, as their grift is getting long in the tooth. They haven’t supported a Republican for President since 2012 or before. Some who were seduced by Obama and his crisp slacks haven’t supported a Republican presidential nominee since 2004.
That said, I am curious if they are cranking out the “Actually - Trump underperformed…” nonsense that they spit out in 2016.
After Trump won Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in 2016 – something that none of the Dole/Bush/McCain/Romney Republicans could do - it was National Review’s Dan McLaughlin, as I recall, who wrote that any surrender-con such as Jeb or Mitt would have won those states even more handily than Trump.
Please let me know who is the first faux-conservative to crank out a piece about how Nikki would have outperformed Trump and won with 400+ electoral votes.
Trump’s Great Act of Political Hygiene
By defeating Kamala, Trump also defeated the Obamas, who had effectively controlled the White House for three presidential terms, and with Kamala Harris, Obama was aiming to be in charge for two more terms.
Consider this, Trump has now done this country the enormous service of ending four political dynasties:
• The Bush dynasty, by defeating the establishment’s chosen primary candidate, Jeb! Bush in 2016.
• The Cheney family, by making Dick Cheney a bi-partisan pariah, and by pushing Liz Cheney into Kamala’s cackling embrace.
• The Clinton dynasty, by defeating Hillary in the 2016 presidential election.
• The Obama dynasty, by defeating their puppet, Kamala Harris, in 2024.
For this act of political hygiene, I will forever be grateful to President Donald Trump.
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