How To Lose a US Presidential Election
Just how utterly wrong could the Dems have been?
I expect that already a number of experts are penning extensive and well-documented books on just how incredibly inept and dysfunctional Kamala was with this entire election process. The titles could be: “How to Lose an Election in 20 Easy Steps” or “How NOT To Run a Campaign” and so on. And university courses could also soon appear on this (at least if the uni is not too woke).
Indeed, if Trump further drains the swamp and reduces the ugly influence of the leftist Machine, we might have more universities that actually teach their students how to think instead of what to think. Perhaps then they might even be able to pen a thesis on how Kamala’s loss was a textbook case of how no one should run a campaign. Short summary (as per Jesse Watters): “The Democrats destroyed themselves trying to destroy Trump.”
Yep, simply hating Trump and pushing abortion is NOT how you win the White House. The Dems now mainly consist of wealthy leftist elites that live on the east and west coasts, who are clueless about the pain ordinary Americans are now experiencing. These Dems cannot tell you what the price of eggs is, nor how much it costs to fill the gas tank and pay the mortgage.
The mere masses however CAN tell you that. That in a nutshell is why the country voted big time for Trump, and big time rejected the cackling Kamala. The Dems are now the party of the elites, and the Repubs are now the party of the working class.
Kamala and Tim wanted tampons in boy’s bathrooms while Trump wanted to fix a massively messed-up America. The two parties could not have been further apart. As one gal put it: “I’m voting red so my sons don’t have to fight in a WW3, you’re voting blue so your son can become your daughter. We are not the same.”
They actually thought that spending kazillions of dollars to get Lady Gaga, Kate Perry, Oprah and a heap of other celebs was going to resonate with ordinary Americans when they are struggling to put food on the table to feed their families. What out of touch fools they are – they are clueless Marxists, elitists, and haters.
They spend all their time at cocktail parties in New York, San Francisco, and LA, and are so out of touch with where America is at that they had no chance to win this election. And all the mistakes made along the way are further compounded when one considers how much dough they blew on all this.
Simply consider the outrageous spending on this campaign. Over 1 billion dollars was raised, but Kamala still ended up with her campaign being in debt. How in the world was Kamala going to fix the US economy? In contrast, the Trump team spent around a third of this.
In this regard let me quote from two important articles, both by Democrats. In the first piece we have an assessment of what one fundraiser is now saying about the Harris campaign. It begins:
A surrogate for Kamala Harris’ campaign against now-President-elect Donald Trump told “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Saturday that she was “misled” by top officials and that the overall effort by the vice president was an “epic disaster.”
Lindy Li, who said she raised “millions” for Harris, explained to co-host Will Cain that Harris campaign officials made a series of false promises and repeatedly claimed that the internal data showed the vice president would handily defeat Trump. “This is just an epic disaster. This is a one-billion-dollar disaster,” Li said, referencing how the losing Harris campaign blew through $1 billion in fundraising and ended up with millions of dollars in debt.
“It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that. I have friends that I have to be accountable to and to explain what happened because I told them it was a margin of error race,” she added. Li stated that Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon assured all Harris surrogates that the vice president would win, even going so far as to produce videos to reinforce the message. “I believed her. My daughters believed her. And so, they wrote massive checks,” Li told the Fox News co-host. “I feel like a lot of us were misled.”
She also told Cain earlier in the interview that the “backstabbing” between Biden and Harris began long before the vice president replaced him on the 2024 ticket. “It was a lot of backstabbing we saw in the press; people were leaking stuff all the time. The White House was leaking like a sieve when it came to Kamala Harris,” said Li.
“In the final years she was able to stabilize and stop the bleeding of her staff because there was a lot of turnover as well. And we saw the press report about that. And things have finally started to calm down,” she said, going on to add that President Joe Biden’s rapid endorsement of his VP was in response to his anger at the Democratic machine for forcing him out. “Kamala Harris wasn’t at the top of the ticket,” Li said. “Biden’s endorsement of Harris caught a lot of people off guard. Even the chief Dems of the party.”
“I really think it was a big fu— a big ‘F you,’ I’m so sorry,” she said to Cain, catching herself before finishing the statement. She also said that there was constant friction between the Biden and Harris camps. Finger-pointing has also erupted over the Harris campaign’s decision to spend up to $20 million on swing-state concerts Monday night, just hours before the VP’s crushing election loss to Donald Trump.
According to the New York Post, the spending has sparked concerns that everyday staff and vendors may not get paid, as reports indicate the campaign is in debt by the same amount. If they get stiffed, it’s likely that Harris’ campaign could face legal action, especially from vendors who want what’s owed them. https://conservativebrief.com/fundraiser-harris-87038/
Listen also to the words of Democratic fundraiser Evan Barker who wrote: “The Democratic Party turned its back on me and my family long before I turned my back on it.” She ended up voting for Trump! As she wrote:
I was 17 when I started working in Democratic politics. While still in high school, I was an intern for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign; later, I served as a field organizer for Hillary Clinton. By the time I turned 26, I was a consultant for dozens of U.S. House and Senate campaigns, four George Soros-backed district attorney races, and a wide range of Democratic organizations. I’ve raised at least $50 million for the left.
And yet, on Tuesday, I voted for Donald Trump. It felt like the biggest middle finger I’ve ever raised to the party I’d supported for most of my adult life. When he won, I was utterly euphoric. Let me tell you why….
She goes on the discuss her background and then says this:
The truth is, I’d been slowly disconnecting from the party. When I volunteered to work at the Democratic National Convention this year, I was hoping to feel inspired again. Instead, when I got there, I encountered the same social snobbery as always, with consultants and higher-ups looking down on volunteers. Donor suites and corporate media suites intermingled in the same area, and extremely rich people mindlessly chanted “joy” and “respect.” Harris had no policies or programs on her website, and yet, an arena of tens of thousands seemed deliriously high, spellbound by her identity as a woman of color running for president. Her political emptiness allowed them to project their own hopes and desires onto her.
The final straw was Oprah Winfrey’s tone-deaf speech. A larger than life Hollywood billionaire so far removed from the experience of average Americans—indeed, from her own experience growing up poor in rural Mississippi—her presence was dumbfounding to me. She said nothing that spoke to the Americans who had once constituted the Democratic base. People like my mom and grandmother, who now must live together because the rents are too high, who live solely on their Social Security checks, who can eat only one meal a day for most weeks because they literally can’t afford to buy as many groceries as they used to. I had seen enough. I was done.
The Democratic Party has evolved into a group that signals virtue but lacks real values. It’s a group that panders but never produces. Advancing LGBTQ rights and a woman’s right to choose are essential freedoms in our country, but when it’s all you have to offer because your constituency is so far removed from the material conditions of regular people, what you get is a candidate who stands for nothing, who could never articulate her vision for America.
Thus I found myself at Donald Trump’s official election night party at the Palm Beach Convention Center. I could scarcely believe I was cheering with the crowd as each swing state turned red. But I was, and I felt the same sense of elation I felt when Obama won in 2008. It was clear that evening, and in the subsequent days as the data came in, that my former friends among the Democratic elite could no longer claim the “racist” white working class put Donald Trump back in the White House. Not when 16 percent of black voters and 45 percent of Latino voters broke for Trump. https://www.thefp.com/p/democrat-fundraiser-evan-barker-i-voted-trump
And then consider the bizarre Kamala supporters and the hysterical meltdowns that they are having. Prestigious Ivy League universities are letting students take off classes and get therapy, including milk and cookies, to help deal with their loss and grief – I kid you not. Psychiatrists are advising these woke snowflakes to stay away from their own families and friends, including at Thanksgiving and Christmas, if they happen to have voted for Trump.
These folks are utterly bonkers. To paraphrase Lesley Gore, ‘Its Trump’s party and the lefty loons can cry if they want to’. But regrettably there is much, much more to this progressive crack-up. Consider also the 4B movement. Leftist loony women have vowed to shave their heads and stop having sex and babies with any men who dared to vote for Trump. Hey, that is good news in my books. No more promiscuous sex, no more abortions, and so on. Matt Walsh put it this way:
Shortly after Trump’s victory, social media started buzzing with tweets like, “Women need to stop dating and having sex with men immediately, and I’m not joking or being dramatic in the slightest.” Another tweet declared, “Ladies, close off your wombs to males. This election proves that they hate us.” Yet another announced a commitment to the “4B movement” from South Korea: no dating, no marriage, no kids with men—all in protest. Essentially, they’re swearing off men, assuming it’s a punishment for us.
But here’s the thing: these women aren’t making exceptions for men who voted for Kamala. They’re banning all men, which is basically them admitting that they’re only attracted to conservative men. The male Kamala voters who tried to appease these women are now tossed aside, punished for something they didn’t even do. That’s what they get for debasing themselves, I guess.
Let’s be real: these women think they’re punishing men by “opting out” of relationships. But for single conservative men, this is actually a relief. No one wants to end up with a bitter, miserable activist who blames Trump for everything. If they want to “punish” us by going extinct, who am I to stand in their way?
A sensible and conservative woman put it this way: “Liberal chicks are vowing to stay away from men, refusing marriage, dating, sex and child-bearing completely – calling it 4B. Looks like we just solved the abortion crisis and made it exceptionally easy for men to avoid dating crazy psychopaths. Winning.”
These folks are still going troppo about their major god: abortion on demand. Some have now resorted to casting spells and the like. Lauren Witzke responded this way: “Women in America are so demonic. Summoning demons and casting spells because they want an unfiltered right to slaughter their own little babies in the womb. Like? Go to therapy.”
There are so many massive wins coming out of this election that are worth discussing. Too many items could be mentioned. But if we had to reduce it all to a few quick bullet points, I guess we can put it this way:
-Trump won and kept Hillary out of the White House in 2016.
-Trump won and kept Kamala out of the White House in 2024.
-These will be among his greatest triumphs and most vital services to America and the world.
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The left does not care about the interests of the poor and the working class despite their protestations to the contrary. A perfect example is Albo’s promise of a $275 power bill reduction, which as a result of his policies morphed into a $1,000 plus increase. But not to worry, Albo to the rescue with a $300 one year only rebate.
The left is more concerned about their radical LGBT agenda, than the poor or working class. Still, it has been enjoyable watching them freak out and being clueless as to how they could have lost to Trump. At least Trump is making all the right noises and should set Vance up nicely for 2028.
You are quite right Ken.
Oh Bill
It has to be text that is right on o not s a s “impartial and objektive”, as they say on Swedish public service television ?
Here’s the shock that the Republicans could win at all. Everyone predicted a safe election victory for Harris.
So then you know what we have to fight with/against here in the Kingdom of Sweden, democracy’s example, worldwide !…..
The Ruling Class vs. Trump by Gary North
Donald Trump did what no President in history ever did. He got to the top without being vetted by the establishment. First, the establishment really is a good old boy network. As I have said many times, the culmination of this process was the election of 2004. Two members of Skull and Bones fought it out politically to be elected.
Angelo Codevilla has been writing about the ruling class for 10 years. His materials are the best I have ever read on this. They are factually correct. They are analytically strong. They are rhetorically phenomenal.
As I have said for over 40 years, Codevilla is the smartest guy in the political conservative movement. He is not just smart in theory. He is smart in terms of tactics.
He gave this lecture in 2010 at Hillsdale College. It got the basics across.
This is a bipartisan alliance. Republican politicians are the junior partners.
Donald Trump did an end run around the ruling class. The Republican establishment hated him. It could not stop him. The Democrats hated him even more. They could not stop him.
Never in American history have the media been so intensely opposed to an American President. They are obsessed with him. His political victory, which was accomplished without their approval, is an affront to them. They are desperate to get even. They are desperate to tear him down. They are desperate to remove any political hope from the tens of millions of voters who supported him, hoping that he would bring them some degree of deliverance from existing policies. His supporters have been betrayed by Trump. He hasn’t changed anything significant. He has squandered his first term. But the issue in the eyes of the ruling class is not the content of a particular President’s agenda. The issue is whether or not they are in control of the process.
Codevilla’s main point: the ruling class’s hatred of common Americans.
The American political ruling class is not just a political ruling class. It is a cultural ruling class. They are contemptuous of the masses of Americans. They really do see the American masses as deplorables: people who own guns and who go to church on Sunday. There are Democrats among them. The ruling class hates them all.
The political establishment hates Trump. This has nothing to do with his policies. It has everything to do with his voter base. They hate the people who make up his base.
Is it a coincidence that I read Zecharia 5 this morning?
May the lead cover be pushed down. v8
May the basket be taken away. v10
BTW; May the flying scroll come to OZ. v1-4