Tomasky: Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?

[Littlered]

173. Nope.

Living in what I’d call a “liberal” red area (if there is such a thing). Here is a hard dose of reality. The policies of the party are wildly unpopular with the vast majority of every day Americans. Since I’m a low post count member I’m sure no one cares. But it’s the truth. I talk to hundreds if not thousands of people during the course of my work. If anyone truly cares about what I hear. I’ll be happy to expound.. But here is a short list of what people in middle are dead set against. Open borders, sanctuary cities, refugees that have no intention of assimilating, homeless encampments, rampant crime (not talking violent crime, talking juvenile crime that goes unpunished). Dei, student loan forgiveness, trans children, in sports and otherwise pushing parents out. Especially when it comes to basically criminalizing “dead naming etc.” And of course their pocketbooks. But from what I see, most around here are doing better than ever.

And one more thing, Harris. People had a negative opinion of her. And there just wasn’t anything that was going to change their minds in the short time she had to do so.

I can’t state this loudly enough. The student loan forgiveness program alone lost our party a million (or more) votes. Especially because Biden wouldn’t let it go. So it never left the news cycle. When inflation is running rampant and property taxes are increasing exponentially. The last thing people want to hear about, is a loan forgiveness program.

Earl G was spot on when he said they used algorithms to micro target these people. And the above are some of the issues they used against us.

So, in my humble opinion. People weren’t voting for Trump as much as they were rejecting the parties (real or imagined ) policies.

As for me. I’m working on a back up plan, and you should too. You can rest assured the next trump crash will make us wish for the last one.