Besides the Democrats, Trump was the adult in the room

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Newly elected US President Donald Trump won a historic victory on Tuesday evening, decisively defeating Democratic opponent Kamala Harris and helping Republicans win the Senate and possibly hold the House of Representatives. While much credit should be given to the former president for building a coalition that allowed him to retake the White House after his own party turned on him following the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, the blame should also go to Democrats are being blamed for having utterly failed at everything they set out to do.

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This was a campaign that rightly should have been a slam dunk for the blue team. They faced an opponent with a proven track record of lies and erratic behavior. A man who helped bring the abortion issue back to the top of the political agenda. A convicted felon who attempted to overturn the results of a democratic election. All the Democrats had to do was present themselves as the adults in the room—as a party capable of defending American democracy and governance from the center. But this was too much to ask.

Democrats had four years to uphold the rule of law — the principle that no one, including the president, is above the law — but the clock was running out. four criminal cases against Trump, essentially ensuring that they will all quietly disappear. The message this sends to would-be autocrats is a powerful one: the president is virtually immune from prosecution, even as he tries to undermine the foundations of American democracy.

It would be difficult to blame anyone for concluding that if the Democrats were not even up to the task of protecting the rule of law and the sanctity of American democracy, they certainly could not be trusted to lead the country for another four years to control.

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One of the more interesting nuggets we’ve collected preliminary exit polls On Tuesday, the state of American democracy was the top issue for most voters, with about three-quarters saying democracy was under threat. Nevertheless, they overwhelmingly voted for a man who refused to allow the 2020 election to take place – even going so far as to ask Georgia’s foreign minister to “findHe received 11,780 votes and sat back as his supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the certification of the election results — and openly jokes about it journalists are murdered and imprison his political opponents.

As more data comes in in the coming weeks about how Americans voted and why, we will get a clearer picture of the factors that led to Trump’s victory. But one of the themes of election night coverage was the role the youth vote seemed to play, particularly the trend of young men coming out in favor of Trump.

Election Day reporting from Arizona State University, NBC journalist Gadi Schwartz commented that the campus was awash in MAGA hats and that many young men said they were influenced by Trump’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s wildly popular podcast. One voter even told Schwartz that he decided to vote for Trump based on Harris’ statements. apparent reluctance to sit with Rogan himself.

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This evidence is all anecdotal so far and represents, at best, the mood at one university within one Republican state. But it would be foolish to underestimate the impact of Trump’s three-hour interview with Rogan, which is over 45 million views on YouTube, and the late approval from podcaster of the Republican candidate.

It’s kind of amazing that the 78-year-old Republican will be the oldest person The once inaugurated President of the United States on January 20 was seen as cooler and better able to utilize new media than his 60-year-old black female opponent. It speaks not only to Harris’ shortcomings — like Trump, her off-the-cuff comments often make little sense, but she lacks the humor that makes her opponent’s riffs seem more like stand-up comedy routines — but also to the very legitimate fear that The Democrats have yet to completely shake off their woke baggage.

According to NBC News exit pollsTrump won male voters by a margin of 54-44 percent. He won primary voters by a similar margin (54-45 percent). Even those who said they disliked both candidates overwhelmingly cast votes for the Republican.

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And who can blame them? For years, white men in particular have been treated with contempt and forced to suffer for the sins of their ancestors. Those who want to go to college face an education system that is rigged against them. In an age when one wrong look, or a hand brushing a knee, can bring unfounded accusations of “sexual assault,” it makes sense that voters would vote for a man who caught bragging about actual sexual violence.

Much of Trump’s appeal comes down to what Latino voters — whom Trump appears to have won by as much as 13 percentage points — might call “cajones.” Trump is undoubtedly the thinnest-skinned man to ever grace the Oval Office, but he has demonstrated a profound willingness to stand up to the powers that be.

In the 1990s, he was often seen ringside at boxing matches that took place at his Atlantic City hotels. Are acceptance speech in the early hours of Wednesday morning there was a guest appearance from UFC boss Dana White and numerous shout-outs to Elon Musk, the self-made billionaire who is making every little boy’s dream of traveling to space a reality. That’s a lot of machismo to cap off a campaign in which policy often took a back seat to the masculine sphere, countering Democrats sheepishly giving in to the hyper-sensitive woke crowd and the feminization of Western society.

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Trump went on to call this victory a “historic realignment that unites citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense,” while portraying Republicans as “the party of common sense.” This may not initially make sense to Democrats who remember the daily blunders and falsehoods that dominated the news cycle during Trump’s first term. But it says a lot about the Democratic party that a large group of Americans believe Trump’s party has more common sense than those who embrace modern progressivism.

No one knows exactly what the next four years will look like. Trump is unique among politicians in that most of his supporters do not try to hold him accountable for his campaign promises, but instead defend him by claiming that he is unlikely to do many of the crazy things he says he will do. The big question this time is whether there will be anyone in government willing to stand up to his excesses. But no matter how difficult the next four years will be for Democrats, they will have no one to blame but themselves.

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