Thoughts on President Trump’s election victory

Wow. Trump has done it again. 

An incredible political comeback. I gotta say ... my hat’s off to him. 

The Trump trifecta!  ... The Executive, the Senate and perhaps the House. He even won the popular vote.

He will definitely go into the history books. I can’t think of anyone - wealthy, famous or both - who has his guts and doesn’t just quit.

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Why did Harris lose?

Apart from Trump’s zealous base, I don't think that this was a vote for Trump — rather a vote against Obama/Biden/Harris than anything else.

Some of the defeat must be laid at the feet of the Democratic establishment; but Harris is really the beau idéal of “identity politics” and Obama’s “progressivism” legacy.

Why was it a resounding defeat for Harris?

1. The party’s obsession with identity politics - The overt racial pandering exhibited during Biden’s term, incl. discriminatory covid relief in the name of “equity”, was deeply off-putting to ordinary everyday Americans. Also things like defunding police, cashless bail etc. Then, there’s fear of the Party’s radical base: such as Harris passing over Josh Shapiro (the v. popular governor of Pennsylvania) as VP. His Jewishness and vocal support for Israel were probably unpalatable to the extreme left among the Dems. The obsession with gender issues, e.g. forcing girls to share locker-rooms with 180-pound bearded males angling to make a point. The seeming indifference to the victims of illegal migrant crimes etc.
2. Harris is a bad candidate and a product of “identity politics” - Harris was an offspring of Biden. Produced by Jim Clyburn’s tilting of the 2020 South Carolina Democrat primary away from Bernie Sanders by telling the “black bloc” to vote for Joe. And, as for political acumen, when asked if there was anything she would change from Biden, she could think of nothing?!
3. Biden stepped down late & immediately anointed Kamala Harris - Surely at least a 3-4 week search for other candidates. Even Obama wanted a DNC without Kamala as “the” candidate. I suspect that there was no way of sidestepping Harris without incurring the wrath of progressive women and blacks.
4. Democrats hiding Biden’s mental decline - The Dems imagined no-one would notice a brain-dead President.
5. Reductio ad Hitlerum - People who compares Trump to Hitler/Mussolini can’t be taken seriously v. seriously. It’s the repurposing of historical events to try and fit them into modern day narratives, and it just doesn’t really work as far as understanding Trump. It diminishes credibility and the legitimate criticisms against Trump. 
6. Lawfare Pursuit of Trump - Trump’s enemies insisted on making the news cycle revolve around him from the day he left office. They kept him in the public eye giving credence to his underdog status, fighting the “corrupt establishment”.