Trump’s Victory: Triumph of Cinderella Man

Trump is only the second president in history to win a second term in the White House after being defeated at the end of his first one: the other was Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1892.

It was the most astonishing, impressive comeback in US political history. The 78-year-old Trump showed extraordinary physical and moral courage – all of which the wall-to-wall US mainstream media (MSM) denied him – in winning his victory. He survived three assassination attempts in rapid succession in just over three months since July in Pennsylvania, Florida and California. Trump won after being convicted on 34 counts for allegedly paying hush money to an actress who appeared in pornographic movies. The US Supreme Court overturned his clearly politically motivated convictions, but at least 60 million Americans still regarded him – falsely – as a convicted felon. Every dirty trick, lie and scare tactic in the history of American politics – which is filled with them – was used against him. They all failed.

Trump campaigned with extraordinary passion. His natural athleticism – he remains a passionate golfer – carried him through. He spoke at length and with passion, conviction, good humor and wit personally at more than 900 rallies. Harris, although 18 years younger, could not match him.

The victory gave no room for the Democrats to whine and complain about the unfairness of America’s political system. As of 3 am Eastern Time, Fox News projected Trump to win at least 277 electoral votes (it will likely be more) against 216 for Harris. Trump’s focus on the main battleground states including the old “Blue Wall” of massive population industrial states historically loyal to the Democrats paid off. He won crucial Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. He easily carried massive Florida, which delusional Democrats had imagined they could flip. He carried the giant state of Texas. His coattails ensured an easy reelection for veteran conservative Senator Ted Cruz. Trump may eventually appoint Cruz, who has an outstanding legal mind, as either attorney general or to a Supreme Court seat.

In these columns I monitored what looked like the ups and downs of a rollercoaster election. But in my most recent Pluralia article, I pointed out that the key data very clearly was already pointing to a clear Trump victory.

As a campaigner Trump was at his worst when he was combative and decisive. But he was never a racist and never a hater – except for establishment liberals and their policies that brought so much suffering, poverty and despair to the American people. Trump’s victorious campaign included millions of Muslim and Arab Americans. They were disgusted at the cowardly and cynical failure of senior incumbent President Joe Biden and of Kamala Harris to raise a finger to end the slaughter of at least 40,000 people in Gaza. (Professor Peter Kuznick of American University in Washington, DC puts the probable death toll after a year of Israeli bombardment and fighting against Hamas there as much likely to be 200,000.)

Harris, who is part black and part Asian Indian, was widely distrusted in the more than 40 million strong African American community. Her showing among them was 7 to 8 percent lower than Joe Biden’s – the least charismatic of candidates – had been in 2020. Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans also voted in record numbers and historic high percentages for Trump. Both black and white men in urban areas torpedoed the Democrats’ strategy and lazy, ancient assumptions by voting for Trump in record numbers. Soaring energy prices, terrifying inflation at levels not seen for 45 years and ominously rising unemployment drove their concerns. Kamala Harris had no answers for any of them. She had no answers for anyone.

Harris was nature’s born loser. She crashed to disaster precisely as I predicted in these columns on July 28 when I compared her to the R101 – the enormous, miserably built British airship that was supposed to fly all the way to India – 12,000 miles – in 1930 but crashed into a low hill in France less than 300 miles after taking off.

Like the R101, Harris proved worthless. She was literally incoherent without a teleprompter in front of her to tell her what to say and what to think. She was protected from all live unscripted interviewers, except for a handful of obscenely overpaid sympathetic reporter-whores who would only pitch her simple, easy soft ball questions, and she couldn’t even hit an intelligent answer to any of them. She never talked policy, she never offered any coherent policies or understanding on any of the critical problems afflicting the American people.

Back on September 1, I predicted that Harris could certainly win, but only if she didn’t have to open her mouth and if no serious crisis loomed during her campaign.

Well, the crises came, she opened her mouth, and every time she did, the voters abandoned her in their millions.

The Democrats tried to win on the passionate domestic moral issue of abortion. They forgot the warning of one of their own most successful strategists of the past 40 years, President Bill Clinton’s election mastermind James Carville. In 1992, Carville proclaimed: “It’s the economy stupid!” Biden and Harris’s witless, illiterate energy policies banned US industry and transportation from the benefits of fracking access to oil and natural gas, which were boosting the economy even under the otherwise lethargic and mediocre leadership of President Barack Obama. Harris’s infantile effort to try and win solely on the basis of being the first female president and the belief of all crazed American liberals in this ludicrous cause also blew up in her face. Margaret Thatcher, the greatest, most successful and longest serving prime minister of the past century in Britain, won with policies, fearlessness, convictions, courage and simple clear focused rhetoric – much as Trump did on Tuesday night. Thatcher never tried to use her gender as a reason to vote for her once. She won three stand out victories in a row.

The US Democrats, as I have pointed out before, have a white male leadership problem.

All their leading white politicians are jokes, cowards and wimps. They have not fielded a convincing charismatic successful white male as a winning presidential candidate in 28 years since Bill Clinton won his second term in 1996. The ludicrous and contemptible Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was a classic example. He brandished a shotgun pretending to go hunting, but he was so inept he looked just like the Warners Cartoon character Elmer Fudd. He was supposed to be a macho hero for having served in the Minnesota State National Guard: but he abandoned his unit just before – legally of course – it was redeployed to serve in Iraq in 2005.

Harris’s fading chances of winning the election were doomed when she chose the clearly stupid, inept Walz – a man who let Minneapolis burn in front of his eyes during the George Floyd riots in May 2020. He brought no credibility, dignity or real experience to the ticket whatsoever. Harris could have chosen Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro who was quiet, competent, reassuring, coherent and able: these were all qualities that Walz laughably lacked. Ironically, if Shapiro was on the ticket, Harris probably would have won the crucial 19 Electoral College votes of his giant, so-called Keystone State. Ironically, Harris was scared of alienating Muslim voters. But her contemptible silence on Gaza ensured that they deserted her in disgusted droves anyway.

Trump not only won: he flipped the Senate, which will now certainly go Republican – a catastrophic loss for the Democrats. It will also mean the full investigative power of the Senate committees will be controlled by Republicans, and they will be able to look deep into all the dirty tricks, abuse by Deep State forces and wildly irresponsible and dangerous flood of lethal weapons without constraints to the Ukrainians to kill thousands of Russian soldiers. Trump previously in office approved the sale of lethal weapons to Ukraine too, but as a deterrent measure. He never allowed or approved their use in full scale war against Russian forces.

In his 30 minutes victory statement starting at around 2:25 am Eastern Time, Trump was good natured, inclusive, optimistic and forward looking. He paid full tribute to Ohio Senator J.D. Vance – another excellent pick. Vance, after only two years in the Senate, weathered a firestorm of media negative and destructive coverage early in the campaign to humiliate Walz and expose him as a stupid, worthless embarrassment: and he did so with courtesy, kindness and restraint in their one vice presidential debate. A sleepwalking Walz never even realized he had been eviscerated in the eyes of more than 60 million people.

In the end, as I predicted in these columns on July 28, Harris failed because she fulfilled the prophecy and scathing political assessment of Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler 124 years ago in 1900. “You cannot beat something with nothing.”

Love him or hate him, Donald Trump once again proved on November 5 that without a doubt he really is SOMETHING. Kamala Harris, who stayed silent on Tuesday night and was as mean spirited and graceless a sore, contemptible loser as Hillary Clinton was in 2016, proved herself, in the end, to be truly – NOTHING.