The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us.
Instead, the great Trump comeback victory was clear by the last weeks of the campaign.
The Republicans had made massive gains in voter registrations since 2020, when Trump had lost the Electoral College by only a few thousand strategically placed votes.
Republicans began to master the transition to non-Election Day balloting—first engineered by the left in 2020 under the pretext of COVID.
They not only vastly exceeded their early/mail-in voting totals of 2020, but by Election Day, they often outpaced Democrats.
For months, it was widely reported, albeit grudgingly, that there were large defections in Hispanic and African American voters from Harris.
The betting odds over the last three weeks usually favored Trump.
Harris simply could not run on anything she had so emphatically promoted in the past—given these left-wing, unpopular, and failed policies had no majority support.
So, the chameleon Harris renounced her prior 30 years of earlier radical advocacies that, along with her race and gender, had forced Joe Biden in 2020 to select her as vice president.
There was no way Harris could still support banning fracking, defunding police, opposing border security and the wall, or calling for mass amnesties and an end to the border patrol.
Nor could Harris still promote racial reparations, ending private health care insurance, or advocating for higher income and capital gains taxes and a wealth tax.
Much less could Harris still boast of wanting mandatory “buyback” or confiscation of some semi-automatic weapons—including entering private homes to seize them.
So given all that, Harris simply flipped—and serially lied about who she was, renouncing her entire political career.
Indeed, Harris began to copycat Trump’s own positions. And so, she never convinced the electorate that she would not flip back to her earlier radicalism once elected or even in defeat finishing out her vice presidential term.
There were three damning realities that even if Harris had been a gifted politician and an adept speaker, she could never have changed.
One, Harris was preposterously running as a turn-the-page, new-generation candidate.
But why had she not sought to implement such a “new chapter” for the prior 45 months as an incumbent vice president, especially while in office during the campaign itself?
Voters knew the answer: the entire Biden-Harris tenure was a far left-wing utter disaster, one for which the radical Harris 1.0 had for three-plus years claimed co-ownership.
Two, why did Harris avoid all impromptu interviews and the media for most of the campaign—only to reverse course and seek out reporters when her polls eroded?
Did it hurt Harris more to avoid the media—or meet with them and thus confirm her inanity to millions of viewers and listeners?
Three, why did Harris serially lie to America that Joe Biden was hale and vigorous—until hours before his senility prompted leftist donors and party insiders to force him off the ticket?
And why could she not declare her independence from the historically unpopular Biden?
Harris instead chose to terrify voters to vote against a demonized and “fascist” Trump rather than to vote for Harris and her make-believe agendas.
But even in demonizing Trump, the maladroit Harris hit a wall.
By campaign’s end, Trump’s favorables were often higher than her own.
His prior four years as president polled higher than the current Biden-Harris train wreck.
Trump, the purported “racist,” won more Hispanic and black voters than past “moderate” Republicans like Bob Dole, John McCain or Mitt Romney.
It was hard to damn Trump as a crazy fascist when iconic liberal figures, like Robert Kennedy or Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, were campaigning for him.
Trump had reinvented the Republican Party by substituting ecumenical, middle-class solidarity for polarizing racial tribalism. Elitist Democrats were left to cater to the interests of their well-off and very rich donors as well as the subsidized poor.
Finally, workaholic Donald Trump campaigned nonstop for two years, won all the primaries, and was endorsed by his two chief primary rivals.
In contrast, the Harris “nomination” was the product of a coup that, in 48 hours, removed from the ticket an incumbent president, nullified the will of his 14 million primary voters, and coronated Harris, who had neither won nor ever entered a primary.
That late July forced abdication of Biden lent an air of illegitimacy to Harris’s candidacy, as well as truncating the time available to campaign.
Finally, Harris’s first major decision was to nominate as her vice president the buffoonish and inept Tim Walz. His radicalism, serial lying, and herky-jerky “weirdness” proved a force multiplier of her own mediocrity.
In contrast, the calm, empathetic, and astute J.D. Vance eviscerated Walz in their sole debate and did the same to the media.
Add it all up—and Harris and her star-crossed candidacy were simply and rightly doomed.
More than anything was the plain and simple lack of understanding of a reality that Harris, and company could not understand. They were fighting the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God. So much human biology was being rigged by the LGBT minority and those in power. You can’t tell the people that they are Too Straight, Dregs, Undesirables, Clingers, smelly Walmart Shoppers and garbage that should go and eat cake and also appreciate inflation, crime and an invasion of illegal foreign nationals, that their very policies created, and then finish off by telling them that they need to tolerate more of the same or else they will be considered racists, bigots and xenophobes that will soon be discredited and punished based on some soon to be enacted social scoring system designed to reward and punish divergent views. Even if people realized a fraction of the aforementioned it was enough to doom the campaign.
We talk about a Modified Stockholm Syndrome a lot. The elite suffer from the very same syndrome in reverse. They believe what they believe because the comradeship and association among the deranged is more important than dealing with the obvious. More and more people are now realizing that in the 2020 National Election 160 million votes and ballots could not have statistically been cast. Why was it not realized then? Likewise, in almost a moment, as a result of the big win, that was going to happen if cheating and rigging was minimized, those who believed in those that lost, and those that lost, figured out how wrong they were. This is more of a statement about the human psyche and the tribal mentality that still resides in our souls despite our quest to be treated, rated and judged as individuals. That, in a nutshell, is what the Founders had in mind when they drafted the Constitution, which has been so modified, ignored and mollified that it would be looked upon, today, with horror by the originalists. It is something Franklin had in mind when he announced that the new government was designed to be a republic and warned that the citizens might not be able to keep it. He could not imagine how much of what he said was true anymore than he could imagine how much the electricity, that lit up the key he tied to a kite, would someday, not very far in the future, shape the world we live in today. Dittos to Orwell as well. He forewarned what became far worse.
If Harris was always doomed, the monumental ground effort by the Trump campaign would not have been necessary. Trump had to run a two year campaign. That much time was necessary to take on the mindset and supporters of Biden/Harris and the behind-the-scenes real prezzie, Barak Obama.
Trump defeated not just Harris, but the truly nefarious people and foreign influencers behind her. The chief support for Kamala came from Gyorgy Schwartz and family. She unswervingly mouthed his policies and plans for our country non-stop. There were assortments of hardcore leftist billionaires like Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Laurene Powell Jobs, etc…, whose donations were accepted by the Harris campaign not as any confirmation of her ideas or policies, but as the price of admission to determine how the country would be run from her office. I was curious how that would happen? Would she have had to vacate the Oval Office and allow Gates, Hoffman and Jobs (Kamala’s BFF) to temporarily take it over when in town?
I do not believe most Americans (save those who have understood the bogus, illegitimate administration which occupied the White House for the past few years) truly understand now, nor understood the ball we all just dodged. They think about their day-to-day bills, affairs, etc…, but the dangerous trend confronting the United States since 2008 is still not defeated and won’t be defeated until major changes are made to government, and to rid this republic of so many incompatible persons who are incapable of residing in or understanding how this country is different from every other, and why we need to be more selective in scrutinizing who and what enters the United States. Barak Obama and Kamala Harris are products of those groups. Some of them were victorious on Tuesday night in Senate and House races, one of the Vindmans won a Congressional seat in Virginia, and a number of hopefuls went down in flames to less-than-worthy Democrat opponents.
There is much work to be done, but one thing is for certain: Harris was not “doomed”. That diminishes Trump’s victory and none of us should accept that.
Progressiveness is a ‘State of Mind’. Constitutionalism works based on facts and historical evidence and, most of all, based upon human biology and those that understood it and had an opportunity to create a country which protected and encouraged the individual entrepreneurial spirit. That is the American Dream.
Stalin and Mayo represent clear evidence of what should have been doomed but, instead, inflicted much horror for so long and for so many. We dodged a bullet? More like a Holocaust well on its way to successful implementation.
No, Harris was not always doomed. She was always disasterous, she was always inept but it was far from inevitable that she would lose.
Trump’s campaign went a lot of places that Republican candidates have, for many years, eschewed as being “unwinnable” and -gasp- talked to people. JD Vance took on the mainstream media with a mild manner, gentle smile and surgical precision to eviscerate its narratives. Trump took everything they could throw at him and remained who he has always been but with new, focused precision. To call their victory inevitable is to underestimate both the tireless efforts of the candidates and the hard work of the newly reinvigorated RNC.
Calling Harris “doomed” also diminishes the significance of people like Bobby Kennedy Jr, Tulsi Gabard and Elon Musk joining forces with the Trump campaign and the impact of the podcasters who refused to bow to pressure to conform to the mainstream narrative. Whatever flaws Trump may have, and he definitely has them, he has always been the ringmaster of the Big Tent populist movement.
VDH had it nailed the other day with a great column that we all loved because he was spot on. This column fails to consider the strategy and work that it took to defeat what otherwise would not be doomed but, on the contrary, could have been successful beyond the wildest of our nightmares. Yes, she ran on an insane agenda but there are many reasons why insanity can prevail. A lot of them are based on how we were indoctrinated instead of educated in addition to what you mentioned had those efforts not been implemented.