There isn’t a single cause for the outcome; it’s a complex mix of reasons.
Harris was a weak & uninspiring candidate
- The longer people got to know her, the less popular she got
There were two issues that strongly affected people’s votes
- Immigration: huge weak point for Dems, no strong rebuttal from Harris
- Prices: no good messaging from Harris (about what she’d do), but also stupid messaging from Trump that people bought (that he’ll fix it)
No Dem candidate would have done much better
- Maybe marginally better than Harris, but not much
- Even though her messaging on the critical issues could have been better, they were inescapable issues
- Virtually every party across the world that was the incumbent at the time that inflation started to heat up has lost
- So while weak as a candidate, it’s hard to put much blame for the loss on Harris
Trump is very charismatic as a leader and has a fanatical base
- And he’s smart enough to know it
- Trump 2016: “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters”
As a result of the above he was forgiven for / un-impacted by a lot of things that would have sunk other candidates
The people/media held Harris (and any candidate who might have been in her shoes) to a much higher standard
- e.g. Trump was OK just having “concepts of a plan” while people wanted detailed policy proposals from Harris
People are idiots & ignorant and fell for obvious BS from Trump
- e.g. “tariffs are paid by the exporting country”, “I don’t know anything about Project 2025”
There are also idiots on the Left who didn’t vote for Harris due to the situation in Israel & Palestine
- They don’t see that Trump will be much worse for the Palestinians
- Perfect example of “Cut of your nose to spite your face”
A large percent of people (including this author) are fed up with the extreme left/woke ideology
- This affected young men the most (in terms of their shift towards the right)
- e.g. In the DNC’s “Who We Serve”, there is absolutely no mention of men
- It also had a similar effect on many independents and even minorities
Young people voted in negligible numbers
- They always complain about who gets elected, but they don’t come out to vote, and this election was no different
Trump is a human incarnation of a pus-filled anal fissure
- Traitorous (tried to overturn 2020 results), narcissistic, cheats on his wives, paid porn actress, autocratic tendencies, …
- And yet people are OK with him as the next president
Due to the above, to many (including this author) he was completely ineligible as a candidate for POTUS, so his promises and “concepts of plans” were completely irrelevant for this election
However, many people voted based on policy & promises, not character, which is an intellectually (if not ethically) OK position for someone to have
- As long as they are consistent with this
So, if any Conservative brings up the character of any future Dem candidate, I’ll punch them in the face
- Metaphorically of course
Democracy worked: we got who the people wanted (especially since Trump also won the popular vote)
Harris showed the right way to handle a loss: accept and concede the loss, and agree to a peaceful transfer of power
- This is a bedrock for democracy and peace in any nation
