Amerika

The broken, failed, miserable, and degrading modern world took a small step back toward sanity last night. It was a small step, and we will have to take many more, but it shows us the audacity of realism and the hope we can have when we are willing to do the work ourselves.

Donald Trump got elected for the third time because of a massive grassroots swell of support that even included a couple billionaires. (Other than natural elites, i.e. aristocrats, “elites” tend to be oligarchs who are good at business but bad at life, and they act like third-world warlords buying and selling favors until they create full socialism.)

Not only did he win the electoral college, but he dominated the popular vote as well, breaking the deadlock of the last twenty-five years:

As of 5:45 a.m. ET (1045 GMT) Trump had won 279 electoral votes to Harris’ 223 with several states yet to be counted.

He also led Harris by about 5 million votes in the popular count.

“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Trump said early on Wednesday to a roaring crowd of supporters at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in Florida.

American voters just rejected many things at once, but most of all they rejected the post-WW2 world order where America enforced liberal democracy, civil rights, and mixed economies upon the world. They rejected politics by ideology and not “what works” in our pioneer tradition (realism).

Realism and supply-side economics won big because those improve life; Leftists promised Utopia and delivered Dystopia, so people are rejecting the stew of egalitarian policies — diversity, entitlements, administrative state, censorship-industrial complex, rent control — associated with the liberal ideology and in fact, with ideology itself.

Ideology after all is a replacement for realism. If you cannot actually improve the situation, you can moralize about what would be more ideal. Ideology got us another Carter economy and race riots, but realism lets us deal with the situation, and the people who actually make things in America favor that:

Many Americans remained frustrated by higher prices even amid record-high stock markets, fast-growing wages and low unemployment.

His loyal base of rural, white and non-college educated voters again showed up in force.

Trump has promised to launch a mass deportation campaign targeting immigrants in the country illegally.

The voters rejected not just a candidate, since she was swapped in at the last minute, but an entire platform based on “the moral arc of history” instead of functional everyday policies. Most voters recognized that under the ideologists, the country was going in the wrong direction and a Democrat would not change it:

A substantial majority of voters who participated in the 2024 presidential election believe the US is heading the wrong direction, according to exit poll data.

About 70% of respondents believe the country is on the wrong track, according to the Fox News Voter Analysis, released in the final hours of voting Tuesday evening.

When Fox News asked voters to identify the most important issue facing the country, 39% said the economy or jobs, while 20% said immigration and just 11% said abortion.

In this election, substantive issues — immigration, economy, authoritarian Socialism — won out over signal issues like abortion. You can always work around abortion laws, especially when the state next door has legalized it, but you cannot fix third-world levels of poverty or totalitarianism as the Left hinted it desired.

Leftism failed. It promised Utopia and delivered Dystopia. It told us that it was going to end racial enmity but ended up making it a hundredfold worse for everyone of all ethnic groups. It claimed it would end poverty, but had us on course to be equally impoverished.

The big shock was that white women broke for common sense over airy theory and ideology:

Even after destroying abortion rights, even after a judge went to painstaking lengths to clarify that Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, and even as the Harris campaign targeted the imaginary “silent majority” of women hiding their political views from their husbands, 52 percent of white American women showed us who they are: Trump supporters.

National exit polls show that Trump easily carried white women’s vote, as white men too were 59 percent for Trump. For comparison, Black men and women went 20 percent and 7 percent for Trump, respectively.

There was so much liberal hand wringing over Harris’s perceived issues with Black male voters. Black men were too sexist, too uneducated, and were seen as a real vulnerability for her chances. “This election has taught me that there is a true intellect deficiency amongst our Heterosexual Black Men. It’s a sad reality,” one viral tweet on X read. A bit earlier, Barack Obama delivered an entire speech blaming Black men for their reluctance to back Harris.

Women benefit from the diversity system. As members of a protected group, they are first in line for promotions in business, academia, and government. Consequently, we have seen a female takeover of many businesses, and apparently it is not going so well because ordinary people are rebelling against it.

People of all races, sexes, ethnicities, and classes found our current system to be incompetent, bloated, and losing value rapidly. They rejected the ideology-based demand-side economics policies of the Left and have embraced the reality-based supply-side economics policies of the Right.

This is not to say that Donald Trump is a raving Right-winger; he has never pretended to be so: he is a moderate candidate in the vein of Ronald Reagan and JFK, and he has always inhabited that middle ground. However, in the postwar period the Left has drifted so far Left that the center was erased, and Trump re-asserted that historical center.

In doing so, he also reminded us of American roots as ethnic Western European pioneers. We are not just WASPs, but the ones who carved a civilization out of an unformed continent with little more than gumption and hand tools. We did not need anyone else; we built this, and we keep it better than any other group can.

Ironically, members of all ethnic groups benefit from having WASPs in charge, since that way the country is the most functional, productive, creative, and therefore, valuable. A rising tide lifts all boats. A subsidy wave makes people rich for a day and poor for a lifetime.

This election also confirmed what Trump said about Election 2020 because fifteen million mysterious mail-in Biden voters never materialized, probably due to the presence of Republican lawyers at polling places and election commissions. Purging the RINOs allowed Trump to make this happen.

Very few realize how moderate he is. His policies are mostly libertarian with a dose of strong leadership that aims to dissuade foreign powers from doing crazy stuff before they start, and to bring warring parties to the table in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

Most importantly he tamed the Christian Right. What other Republican could get away with rejecting the idea of a nationwide abortion ban? Trump saw the wisdom of the SCOTUS decision, which was to kick this to the states, and we can expect similar thinking from him on other issues.

Just about everyone saw that America was in a Carter-style moribund economy caused by Keynesian stimulus, writing regulations that offloaded stimulus costs onto businesses, and political agendas like affirmative action and environmentalism that crippled the function of institutions and businesses both.

Even more, many realized that we were facing a political machine in Washington — the Swamp, Deep State, entrenched bureaucracy, beltway bandits — which was going to engineer its perpetual power through vote-buying via entitlements programs, unless we stopped it.

For many however the important issue was diversity and Trump was the first to stop bleat-repeating “diversity is our strength” and point out that it inherently divides us:

There have been so many attempts to explain away Trump’s hold on the nation’s politics and cultural imagination, to reinterpret him as aberrant and temporary. “Normalizing” Trump became an affront to good taste, to norms, to the American experiment.

We can now let go of such illusions. Trump is very much part of who we are. Nearly 63 million Americans voted for him in 2016. Seventy-four million did in 2020. And now, once again, enough voters in enough places have cast their lot with him to return him to the White House. Trump is no fluke, and Trumpism is no fad.

In her book “America for Americans,” Erika Lee argues that Trump’s immigration policies and statements are part of a long tradition of xenophobia — against Southern Europeans, against newcomers from Asia, Latin America and the Middle East — a tradition that has lived alongside our self-perception as a nation of immigrants.

Political machines have always run on the backs of the immigrant vote. Not just illegal immigration, but regular immigration (“shithole countries”) came under fire from the Trump campaign. His point was that instead of depending on cheap labor to keep our welfare state afloat, we should become productive again.

He recognized that our nü-elites which replaced the WASPs were in fact the product of a Left-leaning educational system and want to be oligarchs ruling over a South America style horde of impoverished peasants.

He saw that when nations slip into socialism, it is because at least some of the wealthy support it, probably as a means of buying votes out from under their competition so that one group of elites can rule as oligarchs on the back of the votes of the supporters they have purchased with favors.

At some point, that collapses into a total welfare state like socialism. When the wealthy no longer deserve their wealth, they create gift-giving warlord power structures like in the third world, and when these political machines take over, they socialize all costs as a way of remaining in power by making people dependent on handouts.

In the long analysis, Trump showed us that he had a plan after all. He fought the stolen election, came back, and proved his point in the best way, which is to have most of the country agreeing with him and most of the rest in a position where they can be easily convinced. Election 2024 was masterful showmanship and salesmanship on display.

The results showed how dangerous it is too have too “social” of a society. All of the dense population and diverse areas voted for Kamala Harris, the least credible candidate in American history. People who depend on producing things for their living voted the opposite way. Cities are codependency and echo chambers.

Going further, the results showed us that the internet is a case of synecdoche, where a part starts for the whole:

The updated results based on March 2009 Comscore data, and presented by Comscore chairman Gian Fulgoni and Kim McCarthy, manager, Research & Analytics at Starcom, at the iMedia Brand Summit in San Diego on September 14, 2009, indicated that the number of people who click on display ads in a month has fallen from 32 percent of Internet users in July 2007 to only 16 percent in March 2009, with an even smaller core of people (representing 8 percent of the Internet user base) accounting for the vast majority (85 percent) of all clicks.

Similarly, the mainstream media was revealed to reflect the biases, prejudices, and hopes of its audience which is a small slice of the overall population. Hollywood and celebrity culture fell before the same axe. The people living in cosmopolitan dense population hugboxes do not represent America, but their own needs for more government dosh.

After all, many people profit indirectly from a government-controlled economy as we have in our welfare state. Hollywood sells products to people buying with welfare money; millions of college-educated people work in regulatory enforcement, social work, and diversity industries.

A welfare state means that you have a centralized economy. Because of the huge amount of taxes it takes in and the smaller amount of money it pays out in entitlements and disability, the US government now controls our economy; no one can get rich without working alongside it or its rules in some fashion.

If you wonder why the titans of industry supported Harris, you can see why through this simple example. Either they or their customers depend on government, so a vote for Harris-Walz would have been a way of perpetuating that consumerist cycle.

People hate change. Not so much change in reality, but change in their thinking; to change thinking requires us to assess the world, and in that there are risks, since we can be wrong. Realism admits that correct and inaccurate are opposites, but ideologism does not.

Let us hope that Trump does not make the “Reagan mistake” of being a strong candidate who does not leave a fully functional party geared toward abstract ideals instead of simply repeating past methods (defense, business, Israel/Jesus) like RINOs did.

If anything, he has a chance to unify the right and bring the Javier Milei and Jair Bolsonaro style libertarians into accord with the ethno-nationalists and genetic realists like Nigel Farage and Viktor Orban, since none of us want to end up in eurosocialist hybrids like National Socialism or Fascism, but we wish to avoid being RINOs also.

He has so far managed a classic moderate platform. He does not intervene in personal decisions like homosexuality, pot smoking, religion, or other Bill of Rights protected activities; he is not attempting to force us to conform to Biblical law or any ideological imperative.

However, he wants to move America to a supply-side productivity-based economy, streamline red tape, remove excess government, and stop civil rights as an industry. If he can do this, he will position America as the remaining superpower for many years to come and perhaps give it its culture back.

This election stood for a broader idea, namely that of accepting human nature instead of trying to change it with science, theory, social engineering, and incentives. People are what they are, including tribalism and a need for culture, so these things are more important than ideology.

It also showed us the need to break political machines that seize permanent control, and how too much government in our lives makes people dependent and therefore, unable to make decisions. This is how liberals reproduce: they make neurotics. Liberals generally are broken people, and most humans are just bags of meat with appetites and anxieties.

Globally, humans are turning away from the postwar order because it turned ideology into subsidy states just like happened in the Soviet Union or Maoist China. We want a naturalistic, organic, and realistic order instead. As said above, this election is just the first of many small steps toward that sanity which we can then build upon.

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