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https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/15/the-coming-era-of-maga-dominance/

Only Donald Trump could have pulled off the kind of victory we witnessed just over one week ago. The victory achieved by, and for, the man himself is already the greatest political comeback in American history.

But it is entirely possible that his win now could set up an equally unprecedented comeback, but not for any one particular individual. If the Republican Party plays its cards right this time, it could build off of the massive coalition that President Trump has built for himself and ride this wave of momentum to a new era of dominance in American politics.

The Old Map and the New Map

Just as importantly as 2016, the 2024 election perfectly displays the best path forward for the new Republican Party when it comes to establishing and maintaining an electoral majority every four years.

Prior to the entrance of Donald Trump onto the political stage, the GOP’s best hope for victory was to win virtually all of the states that were once considered “swing states” just two decades ago. This is best represented by the 2004 map when George W. Bush narrowly defeated John Kerry.

Bush managed to win the then-swing states of Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, and Florida. The only swing state Bush lost that year was New Hampshire, even though he had won it four years prior against Al Gore. Kerry won the three Rust Belt states that have become much more important in recent years.

After winning eight of the nine swing states, Bush wound up with a mere 286 electoral votes to Kerry’s 251.

By contrast, even though President Trump lost five of the nine swing states from the 2004 map, his victories in the three Rust Belt states were enough to net him a total of 306 electoral votes, substantially higher than Bush’s best performance. He then beat his own record with his historic comeback victory eight years later, with 312 electoral votes and picking up one more of Bush’s swing states. By trading out the smaller states of New Mexico, Colorado, and New Hampshire for the more heavily populated Rust Belt, President Trump made Republican victories at the national level much easier than they were under Bush.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/10/after-the-election-the-rage-against-white-women/

How quickly things change. At the start of this week, women voters were being feted as the voice of reason in America’s ‘gender-gap election’. To the Democratic elites, it was inconceivable that women would back Trump over a ‘joyful’ woman of colour. They assumed all they needed to do was remind women that in the privacy of the voting booth they alone choose who to endorse and the votes for Kamala Harris would come flooding in. It’s now clear that plenty of women took this advice to heart. But they voted for Trump, not Harris. As I wrote on spiked before the election, the idea that women would win it for Kamala was always likely to be ‘more hype than reality’.

With most votes now counted, we know this week’s result was not even close. At time of writing, Trump has almost five million more votes than Harris and has convincingly won both the popular vote and the Electoral College. This feat would be impossible without the votes of a huge number of women. Exit polls suggest the gender gap did exist but – at around 10 per cent – was far lower than Team Harris had expected. Women split 53 per cent for Harris, 45 per cent for Trump. This means that a smaller proportion of women voted for Harris this election than voted for either Clinton in 2016 or Biden in 2020. Younger women were more likely to have voted for Trump this time around than they did in 2020 and Hispanic women swung massively towards Trump. But there’s another group that backed Trump decisively: white women. More white women voted for Trump than Harris.

Now looking to apportion blame for Harris’s defeat, Democrats have these white women in the firing line. The very same women they courted so assiduously just days ago are now being chastised and insulted. The overarching sense is one of disappointment. Bloomberg contemplates with an almost audible sigh the ‘irony of women voting for abortion rights’, in many state referendums held on the same day as the national election, while also voting for Trump. ‘For millions, it didn’t matter that he was the man who bragged about overturning Roe vs Wade’, its columnist concludes. ‘White women doomed Kamala Harris and the Democrats – again’, notes the New Republic. The LA Times has the same take: ‘Democrats keep expecting white women to save them, and they keep getting burned.’ In other words: typical white women, always letting the side down. The ‘free to vote for who you like’ message did not age well.

The ‘white women who voted for Trump’ phenomenon has, inevitably, led to the rehabilitation of ‘Karen’ – the slur reserved for middle-class soccer moms.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/11/the-fault-dear-democrats-is-in-yourselves/

“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.” – Often attributed to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

The Democratic election postmortem immediately descended into public blame-gaming—as expected. When Joe Biden was forced off the ticket in late July, the conspirators issued a party line that he was to be praised as a veritable George Washington—in the spirit of Washington’s farewell address of 1796 about why it was a good thing for the first president not to run for a third term.

So, we were lied to that Joe, the sitting President of the United States, was not forced out by Nancy Pelosi, the Obamas, George Clooney and the celebs, and the billionaire class. We instead were lectured that Biden, magnanimously as the neo-father of our country, selflessly bowed out to ensure Kamala Harris’s elevation as the nominee and, with it, a sure Democratic victory.

But now? After the Democratic train wreck, half the party is suddenly damning George Washington Joe for sticking around too long, even though party grandees cooked up the scheme in the first place of nominating the cognitively challenged Biden in 2020 to shut out his radical (and supposedly unelectable) primary rivals.

Now that his successor Harris has bombed, in the leftist mind, Joe has gone from a Washingtonian Olympian to a veritable selfish Richard Nixon who clung to office far too long and supposedly ensured his party’s defeat.

Yet still, others now blame incumbent Vice President Kamala herself. The once “joyful” candidate, after the coup to remove Biden, was once praised to the skies as a “turn the page”/”move forward”/“change” candidate—only then to be damned as an insipid loser.

So, one postelection narrative was that Harris—we were told to recall—was always known as inept and thus originally picked as Joe Biden’s Spiro Agnew insurance policy, who would prevent his indictment, impeachment, or medical removal.

But never mind blaming either Biden or Harris or both. The left cannot fault either a lack of funds; they raised a billion dollars more than Trump. Leftists also cannot complain about 95 percent favorable media coverage, supposedly worth billions of dollars in free advertising.

They cannot regret that they did not do everything imaginable to destroy the Trump monster—given they had impeached him twice and tried him as a private citizen. They cooked up the Russian collusion and laptop disinformation hoaxes, raided his home with a SWAT team, and unleashed five criminal and civil suits designed to bankrupt, demonize, and jail him. They tried to remove him from at least 16 state ballots and daily smeared him as a fascist, dictator, and Hitler—even as two would-be assassins tried to shoot him.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/09/g-s1-33583/new-record-women-governors-kelly-ayotte?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

“Dittmar added that while women in office are far from monolithic in their positions or priorities, they have historically been the force behind raising issues and policy agendas around caregiving, women’s inclusion in medical trials, and concerns about the treatment of women in the military.”
A record number of women will serve as state governors next year — building on the historic gains made during the 2022 elections.

The new record came after Republican Kelly Ayotte, a former U.S. senator and state attorney general, won the New Hampshire governor’s race on Tuesday, defeating Democrat Joyce Craig in what was considered this year’s most competitive gubernatorial election.

Ayotte’s victory will bring the total number of women holding state governor’s offices to 13 — surpassing the previous high of 12 set after elections in 2022. Before that, the highest number of women serving as governors was nine, a record established in 2004.

“We’re both celebrating the milestones that women have achieved, but at the same time, as we note those milestones, we also have to recognize that there is a lot of progress left to make for women,” said Kelly Dittmar, director of research at Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics.

“And that is especially true at the gubernatorial level,” she added.

Governors, in particular, play a major role in shaping state policies that often can have a more immediate and direct impact on their citizens than federal policies. When women are elected into office, it tends to promote more trust in government and better perceptions around fairness, Dittmar said. “Because it holds up to that standard of being representative,” she said. “That’s the message.”

Dittmar added that while women in office are far from monolithic in their positions or priorities, they have historically been the force behind raising issues and policy agendas around caregiving, women’s inclusion in medical trials, and concerns about the treatment of women in the military.

Seeing women in office also sends a positive message to young women about what’s possible for them in the future. “And for young men, will they see that and hold less biases about who can and should be in elected leadership?” Dittmar said.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/the-stakes-of-the-election-are-high/

The stakes of the 2024 election could be very high depending on who wins. I don’t approve of either of the two candidates — I think they’ve both committed impeachable offenses and demonstrated unfitness. I’m voting for Trump. That’s not an endorsement, it’s just how I’ve resolved the choice — I don’t understand how any conservative could support Harris, but I sympathize with those who can’t vote for Trump.

Do I think Trump would appoint better people than Harris would, including a number of strong conservatives? I do indeed. Trump is not a committed conservative, but his last administration had much for conservatives to like; and even if I don’t have hopes as high for a new Trump-Vance administration, I’m convinced a Harris-Walz administration would be a disaster for the country.

But here is my main calculation: The system’s guardrails — Congress, the courts, the administrative state, the armed forces, the state governments, the media, and business leaders — are zealous in policing against executive excess when a Republican is in power. The worst thing Trump did was the soft coup attempt, and it never had a smidgeon of a chance. By contrast, the guardrails are not nearly as effective in checking executive overreach, usurpation, and other abuses of power by Democrats — in fact, many of the institutions we rely on as checks become, instead, progressive cheerleaders. As a result, I have considerably less trepidation about a Trump presidency than a Harris presidency.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/fight_fight_fight_vs_fake_fake_fake.html

The most iconic image of the 2024 campaign came from the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Pennsylvania on July 13.  An assassin had just fired multiple shots at President Trump, wounding him in the ear.  Secret Service agents scrambled to shield the president, while counter-snipers neutralized the shooter.  As members of his security detail began to briskly move him from the stage where he was speaking, President Trump asked them to stop so that he could reassure supporters he was alive and well.  With blood streaked across his face and pooling near one side of his mouth, he stretched a closed fist toward a blue sky with an American flag waving just behind his head and shouted to all who could hear, “Fight!  Fight!  Fight!”

Arguably, it was not just the most iconic visual of the campaign, but also one of the most iconic images in American history.  The picture of a bloodied but defiant American president reaching toward the heavens and expressing a sense of resolute calm in a moment of chaos will remain in many people’s minds for the rest of their lives.  President Trump’s bravery is seared in their memories. 

In any other election cycle, the contest would have ended on July 13.  On a sunny day during a festive campaign rally, a shooter murdered a husband and father protecting his family, injured two other attendees critically, and nearly assassinated a former president.  Such outrageous political violence should have sufficiently shifted public sentiment toward Trump’s favor to make his victory a foregone conclusion.  (For what it’s worth, President Biden dropped out of the race eight days later.)  Fearing that possibility, the propaganda press immediately worked to erase the incident from the public’s thoughts.  

After becoming one of the most famous photographs in the world, the image of President Trump’s raw courage disappeared from publications and websites.  Reporters barely talked about the murder of local Pennsylvanian Corey Comperatore or the serious injuries to other rallygoers.  Anonymous FBI sources initially downplayed the attempted assassination by speculating that Trump had not actually been shot but had instead been cut by flying pieces of broken glass.  Cable news pundits openly mocked the bandaging around Trump’s ear and acted as if being shot in the face is no big deal.  To this day, FBI investigators preposterously claim that they are unable to ascertain the shooter’s motive. 

https://www.frontpagemag.com/deranged-harris-supporters-harass-and-threaten-the-mcdonalds-that-hosted-trump/

We’ve been hearing a great deal about fascism in this election, with the left making increasingly unhinged warnings about how Donald Trump will destroy Americans’ freedom to waste their lives watching pornography and force them to have children, while in the process of taking an axe to “our democracy” itself.

This seems, however, to be an increasingly obvious case of leftists resorting to their familiar tactic of accusing their opponents of what they themselves are actually doing. Over and over, we see leftists trying to intimidate people into being afraid to express views that oppose them, or even to allow their foes to have a fair hearing. So once again: who’s the fascist? They’re finding out at the McDonald’s that famously played host to Donald Trump.

What the Daily Caller reported Thursday was drearily predictable: “In the wake of Trump’s widely-publicized campaign stop at the ‘Golden Arches’” franchise in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, “Yelp disabled reviews for the location amid a flood of negative comments, and the franchise’s owner retained private security to ensure the safety of employees and patrons in response to threats made against the eatery.”

Oh, for Pete’s sake. Threats? Remember that when Trump made his celebrated appearance at Mickey D’s, the corporation issued a balanced and generous statement, saying: “As we’ve seen, our brand has been a fixture of conversation in this election cycle. While we’ve not sought this, it’s a testament to how much McDonald’s resonates with so many Americans. McDonald’s does not endorse candidates for elected office and that remains true in this race for the next President.”

McDonald’s said that Harris was as welcome as Trump was, and added: “Though we are not a political brand, we’ve been proud to hear former President Trump’s love for McDonald’s and Vice President Harris’s fond memories working under the Arches,” as fictional as the latter may have been.