Demxit (Democracy exit)
Ah of course! The famous democracy exit that got most electoral and popular vote.
Trump wins presidency for second time
921–930 of 1001 posts
Re: Trump wins presidency for second time
#922Adding comments favored or tailored to one political party or another should not be allowed on HN. Clicked on this thread for insightful discussion/debate, I’m just reading people talk about how trump was not a good candidate, and how kamala campaigned incorrectly and so on so forth
I always go to the bottom of the thread here on these hyperpolticized threads for the intelligent takes.
Re: Trump wins presidency for second time
#923Partisanship aside, he is not a smart man. He's a convict and a known racist.
He most likely has dementia, and we will be under a President Vance before 2026.
But he still won. I'm disappointed but not surprised.
Re: Trump wins presidency for second time
#924About 20 million votes less than the 2020 election, with about 15 million less for the democrats, and a measely 4 million less for the republicans. Thought that was interesting.
The counting isn't finished yet. But turnout's clearly higher than in 2020, looking at the states that have already finished their counts (or near to it).
Here are the (incomplete) vote counts from the three swing states that WSJ currently indicates at 99% counted:
2020 2024* Δ
Michigan 5,539,302 5,619,861 (99%) +80,559 (+1.45%)
N. Carolina 5,524,804 5,625,658 (99%) +100,854 (+1.83%)
Wisconsin 3,298,041 3,415,014 (99%) +116,973 (+3.55%)Re: Trump wins presidency for second time
#925I'm a German living in Singapore.
This labdslide Trump/Republican victory feels like the first glimmer of hope ever since mankind has been sliding down one slippery slope after the other since 9/11.
Trump has assembled a truly kickass team. If Musk and Kennedy actually get to be able to pull off what they have planned, the entire world will become a significantly better place.
- The US will hold Bitcoin - other countries will follow, we will be one step closer to having a new global reserve currency that cannot be abused as an economic weapon by the big bully in the room. The potential for global peace is finally in reach. - Seed oils will be banned or at least villified - Childhood vaccines will be banned or at least made optional - The entire demonic trans movement will be cancelled, confused children will no longer be mutilated - Academics will be able to speak their minds again, actual science can be conducted again - Americans will eat and export the best beef on the planet, and it will be shown to be hugely beneficial for human health and for the environment - The entire climate hysteria hoax will collapse - our children will no longer have to live in baseless fear of the future.
This is just from the top of my head. If the deep state doesn't finally succeed in another assassination attempt, the US is going to rise again as an indisputable super power.
Re: Trump wins presidency for second time
#926It's the economy, stupid: -Inflation is not prices; it is the rate of change in prices. Low inflation doesn't imply low prices. -Aggregate statistics don't necessarily explain individual outcomes. The Dems failed on this count massively, and have, for maybe the last 40 years, which is about the amount of time it took for my state to go from national bellwether (As goes Ohio, so goes the nation) to a reliably red stat…
> It's the economy, stupid
Probably not.
1) Exit poll data show that every household income band was basically evenly split between Trump and Harris.
2) Religions, on the other hand, were not split evenly at all. Evangelical Christians went extremely hard for Trump. Catholics and other Protestants followed too. But that's it. Jews, Atheists, other[0] religion demographics? They went for Harris.
Are you suggesting that only Christians pay grocery bills?
[0] - Muslims we'll find out tomorrow from CAIR, but the bombing of Gaza is known to be weighing heavily on that vote. Again, though, not the economy.
Re: Trump wins presidency for second time
#927US politics isn't easy to understand as an outsider. It looks like Harris was was an ok candidate for the core democrat voter and a terrible candidate to win a populist election in what is essentially a deeply divided and mostly conservative country. She didn't address the swing voters greatest concerns which was their decline in real wealth due to inflation and fear of change. I am sure money and influence had a lot…
> It looks like Harris was was an ok candidate for the core democrat voter
Thats very questionable, she was forced to drop out before the first Democratic primary for the 2020' nomination.
Re: Trump wins presidency for second time
#928It's the economy, stupid: -Inflation is not prices; it is the rate of change in prices. Low inflation doesn't imply low prices. -Aggregate statistics don't necessarily explain individual outcomes. The Dems failed on this count massively, and have, for maybe the last 40 years, which is about the amount of time it took for my state to go from national bellwether (As goes Ohio, so goes the nation) to a reliably red stat…
Re: Trump wins presidency for second time
#929If the GOP sweeps both chambers and form a supermajority they will be in the position where they are expected to deliver what their constituents were promised without any opposition. Hell of a tight-rope given the scale of their promises and how rabidly sure the GOP base is on their ability to deliver.
Re: Trump wins presidency for second time
#930Today we learned that immigration is more important for Americans than even abortion, so much that 3 states didn’t even codify it.
To be fair to Republicans, we definitely didn't learn about this today. They've been consistently pushing this issue over the last eight years (build the wall) and crafted a narrative that the Democratic party did absolutely nothing to get ahead of. And it turns out the minority voters that the Democrats rely on, many who came here legally as immigrants, don't like illegal immigrants "cutting the line", regardless of how true any of it is.
A great example is the viral marketing Republicans did where they went house to house in largely blue towns asking when they'd like their shipment of an illegal family to house.