After former and future President Trump’s decisive rout of Kamala Harris last night, there will be a lot of blame for the mainstream to spread around. Biden will be blamed for being old and decrepit by the same folks who told us he was at the top of his game back in May. Trump will be blamed because Trump. Doug Walz will be blamed for being a lying sack of crap with a John Wayne Gacy vibe about him. Americans will be blamed for finally being fed up with the gaslighting and abuse. The whole exercise is mostly cope on the part of progressive Democrats who thought a Harris win, and a Harris re-election could lock in the bullsh** of DEI and gender ideology and decisively run religion out of the public square. But they do have a point about Americans being fed up.
Last night, a GOP candidate won the popular vote for the first time since 2004. In doing so, not only was a stake probably driven through the heart of “National Popular Vote Compact,” but a potential politcal realignment was previewed.
One of the major takeaways from last night was that Trump’s win was broad-based. He not only ran up numbers on friendly turf—Trump took Florida in 2016 by less than 2 points and in 2020 by less than 4 points, but last night, he romped to a 13.4-point victory—he also flipped the Democrat stronghold of Nassau County on Long Island, NY.
One observation is that the Democrats’ race card is maxed out and facing cancellation. Starr County, Texas, is billed by the US Census Bureau as the “most Hispanic” county in the United States, with nearly 98% of the residents self-identifying as Hispanic. In 2016, Starr County went for Hillary Clinton by 60 points. It went for Joe Biden by 5 points. Last night, it went for Trump by nearly 16 points.
In the aftermath of Tony Hinchcliffe’s performance at Madison Square Garden, where he referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” we were reliably told that this remark had torpedoed Trump’s campaign and that Puerto Ricans would flee from him. Yesterday, Puerto Rico held its election for governor, and the winner was New Progressive Party candidate Jenniffer González-Colón. Ms. González-Colón is a Republican who is currently Puerto Rico’s non-voting Resident Commissioner in Congress. If Puerto Ricans were done with the GOP over Hinchcliffe’s lame insult-comedy, they probably wouldn’t have voted that way.
Likewise, in Florida, Puerto Ricans went to Trump in large numbers. Osceola County, which is about 30% Puerto Rican, went from D+14 in 2020 to R+1.5 on Tuesday.
The changes were not just ethnically based. The whole Turn Texas Blue bullsh** went down in flames yesterday with Colin Allred making Beto O’Rourke look like a political virtuoso.
The changes are also visible in the Democrat heartland.
Virginia has been a reliably Blue State since it was flipped in 2008. It went for Biden by 10 — last night. Harris only won by five points. There are much more stunning changes afoot.
In short, Trump’s win last night looks like the beginning of a trend that crosses races and ethnicities. Four years of competent and principled governance could move progressive Democrats to the ash heap of history.
