The king is dead, long live the king!
The above phrase has roots in 15th century France, where the proclamation was made the moment the coffin of a deceased monarch descended into the vault of the church and a new king began his reign.
In the case of this article, the “dead king” is Vice President Kamala’s doomed 2024 presidential campaign and her embrace –along with the embrace of the entire Democrat Party and its sycophantic media — of (and by) Hollywood snoots, coastal elites, mega-donors, “trans” Americans, the no-longer-hallowed halls of academia, and other out-of-touch elites on the far left.
In short, we’re talking about identity politics.
Given the multitude of pre-election poll results, which continually showed that everyday Americans were sick and tired of all things related to four miserable years of the Biden-Harris administration, principally Bidenomics and ever-increasing costs of groceries and other consumer goods, coupled with the intentionally created, never-ending illegal alien flow across the southern border, and most importantly, President-elect Donald Trump’s blowout, coast to coast, swing state to swing state, “blue wall” state to blue wall state drubbing of Harris and her radical left-wing policies, it’s a fair assumption that identity politics is indeed dead, and Donald Trump killed it.
Whether identity politics remains dead will depend in large part on how and what Trump and his administration deliver to all Americans over the next four years.
Before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s first look at — and list to — the words of Victor Davis Hanson (VDH) and his analysis why he believes Trump won.
VDH, an American classicist, military historian, and conservative political commentator, explained to British journalist Piers Morgan on his “Piers Morgan Uncensored” podcast how Trump was able to take away voters from the Democrat Party and “middle America,” and soundly defeat Harris and her stubborn adherence to identity politics (emphasis, mine).
He was able, for the first time in my lifetime, to replace racial tribalism with class solidarity … and that’s what they do not want to confront. In other words, he said to people, ‘If you’re a Mexican-American truck driver, if you’re a black electrician, if you’re a poor white carpenter, you have more in common with each other than you do with your elites on the bicoastal, domain.’
Precisely.
The Democrat Party has for decades pandered to and exploited Black Americans and other people of color, along with “poor white” Americans, as Morgan suggests. The 2020 presidential election, even though Trump lost, was the beginning of what would explode in 2024: historic increases of Black and Hispanic voters abandoning the Democrat Party in favor of Trump and down-ballot Republican candidates, as did Rust Belt blue-color white voters, many of whom broke with their union “suggestion” of whom to support.
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Hanson continued to explain:
In other words, the people at Stanford University do not, represent the working man at, in Michigan, or the Latino La Raza Latinx media spokesperson does not represent the people I’m living around right now here in the San Joaquin Valley.
And that was a radical idea. Where he made unbelievable gains were in Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, Asians and African Americans. And had he not made those gains, he would not have won.
And that’s what they do not want to confront, because that’s the keystone of the Democratic Party. Victim, victimization, victimizers oppressor, oppressed. And they have this kind of Marxist binary. And people don’t buy into it, and especially minorities don’t buy it.
Yet, left-wing elites continue to sit atop their self-righteous perches and pontificate to the rest of us how we’re too stupid and incapable of understanding how a Harris-Walz administration would have been in our best ignorant interests. Go figure.
🔊VDH on Trump’s 2024 win, making massive gains across the racial spectrum and what that means to the future of the Democrat party:
“He was able, for the first time in my lifetime, to replace racial tribalism with class solidarity…and that’s what they do not want to confront.”… pic.twitter.com/EyjE6dTaFD
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 30, 2024
While Victor Davis Hanson spoke true to form (which he always does) on Morgan’s podcast, Morgan, who is at times (OK, most of the time) a snobbish, fingernails-on-a-chalk-board-sounding, condescending British snob, actually appeared to be all in.
Then again, how can anyone with a modicum of intelligence and objectivity fail to see why Harris lost?
Again, with a modicum of intelligence and objectivity, which rules out the majority of the Democrat Party and its lapdog media. And for Hollywood and academia, please.
Period.
