Posted on 11/02/2024 6:21:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This time around, Hillary Clinton is not lamenting Republican ‘deplorables’. She has chosen instead, along with Kamala Harris, to label Donald Trump and his supporters as out-and-out fascists. Different words but the same meaning: anyone who backs the GOP candidate in next week’s US presidential election is an enabler for modern-day blackshirts or stormtroopers.
But for many Americans, the real ‘deplorables’ are to be found among Harris’s backers, such as the tech oligarchs who dominate the economy, the financiers of Wall Street or the moguls of mainstream media. Think of the likes of Bill Gates, who just forked in $50million to the Harris campaign.
Even more detested by most of the public are the ‘progressive’ activist class that has embraced Harris and shaped her past record. This group, as the author Musa al-Gharbi writes in his new book, We Have Never Been Woke, constitutes ‘a new elite’. Trained as ‘symbolic analysts’, these often flailing graduates and professionals now represent a revolutionary class pushing the Democrats towards the ideological loony bin. As long as Harris and the Democrats remain in thrall to the activists’ progressive ideology, they will be tarred with their widely unpopular views on everything from climate change to transgenderism, race quotas and immigration.
Their numbers are not too impressive. Overall, the woke make up roughly eight per cent of the electorate. But they tend to be politically motivated and dominant within the party apparatus, newsrooms and schools. They have long dominated local politics in cities like Los Angeles, Oakland, Houston and Boston.
Progressive influence has been far more evident in the Biden administration than in preceding Democratic regimes, especially those of Bill Clinton and even of Barack Obama. The current administration has welcomed ideologues with strident progressive views on the environment, gender, race and the Middle East. Biden and Harris have focussed on these woke constituencies over more traditional Democratic policies that embrace broad-based economic growth and opportunity.
Harris, more than Biden, epitomises the current version of the ‘left’ that is rooted in an increasingly gentrified base, rather than working-class or middle-class people. This has been financially rewarding for the Democrats. The ultra-rich and their progressive foundations have consistently outraised and outspent the political ‘right’ by a margin of nearly two-to-one. For Harris, long supported by these same people, this has helped build up an unprecedented billion-dollar campaign war chest, as much as three times the size of Trump’s.
Leftists like Bernie Sanders admit that Harris’s apparent shift to the centre during the election is a mere pragmatic feint. But as her campaign has lost momentum, his political action group, Our Revolution, now warns even the hint of moderation could limit turnout among progressive voters.
Yet there’s a problem here. Outside of the biggest cities and college towns, progressives are thin on the ground. Their views are far from popular with the general public (abortion rights is the main exception). The progressive, mainstream media – such as the New York Times and USA Today – insist that wokeness poses no big problem. But, as former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet put it, the traditional media now serve as the place where ‘America’s progressive elite talks to itself about an America that does not really exist’.
Thankfully, politicians still have to deal with the real America, leading some swing-state Democrats to run away from the progressives’ ideological handcuffs. In tough races in Pennsylvania and Ohio, incumbent Democratic senators are even stressing their close ties to President Trump to win re-election. In contrast, California’s woke governor, Gavin Newsom, is now so unpopular that some of his own legislators avoid being seen with him. Clearly smelling the coffee, he has kept his state’s nuclear and natural-gas power plants operating, despite fierce opposition from greens. He has even suggested amending the state’s landmark environmental law, which has proved devastating for the cost of living.....SNIP
I don’t think we want to become a woke, nut-job nation.
This is just one of many reasons why Harris should lose the election. If this were 1980, I would be quite confident of a Trump victory.
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FLASHBACK: Kamala says “We have to stay woke. Like everybody needs to be woke.”
https://rumble.com/v59tr2y-flashback-kamala-says-we-have-to-stay-woke.-like-everybody-needs-to-be-woke.html
With Democrats in charge we ARE a nation RUN by WOKE NUT-JOBS!!!
she’s right. interesting that everyone is finally waking up to the evil that the liberal democrats want to instill and install . “Don’t be evil” applies.
Seems wishful thinking. From the evidence I see, Kamala is on track for winning easily.
The cheat is on. PA,GA,WI,MI,AZ will all be stolen.
I hope you're right, but we'll see on Tuesday.
Yet, the race is neck-and-neck. If the looney left's positions on all these issues is so repugnant to most Americans and the Democrat party IS the looney left, then how are the Dems getting close to 50% of the electorate? Why aren't the Dems closer to that 8% level of the woke? Are the 42 points of the electorate (50% minus 8%) so STUPID they don't know or see what's going on? Can they not comprehend where the looney left would take us?
I don’t think we want to become a woke, nut-job nation.
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Too late. We are there. I’m hoping this election marks a distinct cultural shift, but if not...well...it’s been a nice run. The USA may not have lasted as long as Rome, Egypt, or any of the other great civilizations, but the Great Experiment sure did give it the ol’ college try.
Now fast forward a few days and she is calling DT a fascist. I think a good ad would be to paste a clip of her saying 'DT is a fascist' beside her Commonweath Club remarks and then ask, "Who is the real fascist here?"
Remember Joe was bragging about "Bidenomics"?
But he was getting mocked for it.
What evidence is that?
Here are some contrarian indicators I have on my radar:
1. RCP averages - She leads in MI and WI, while he leads in PA, just narrowly. PA is now the must-win for Trump. VA and NH and NM are pipe dreams for him. Whereas NC is not a pipe dream for her.
2. 55-45 female-male voting ratio in early voting. This may be a misleading indicator and may correct itself on election day, but all polls had a 52-48 or 51-49 turnout model.
3. Multiple recent gaffes from the Trump campaign (comedian, comments against Liz Cheney, etc.) whose fallout is reverberating on social media. The Biden/Harris campaign gaffes and fallout are well covered here. But the Trump gaffes are ignored or downplayed. They are having an effect, like the Biden gaffe, and perhaps may cancel each other out.
4. The hidden Harris voter. While pollsters have had 3 election cycles and 8 years to improve their Trump forecast models, they only have had 3 months for Harris voter polling. It is possible they are missing some Harris voters on the fringe. On the other hand, the likelihood of polls again underpredicting Trump support like they did in 2016 and 2020 is nearly zero. And it is possible some polls are actually "overpredicting" Trump's strength by overcompensating for past poll misses.
5. Trump's own schedule - he is doubling down on rallies in NC. This state looks very tentative for him, other signs notwithstanding.
6. Dem ballot harvesting machine is second to none. We have no comparable ground game, except to complain about fraud afterwards.
Having said all that, I hope he wins, but people here chest thumping and being certain about him getting 312 EVs or 322 EVs etc. are repeating the same mistake people here have made in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2018, 2020, and 2022.
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2020 was a 52/48 women men ratio at the end of the election. Early voting was 56% in 2020. This is less than this year.
As for outperforming the polls, the most significant difference of 2020 vs 2024 is the Census Bureau was corrupted when the Biden Administration appointed people to it in 2021. The Census is the basis for many polling parameters in the turnout models. Those numbers WERE changed after the census tabulation was complete. So polling influence will be there, and it will not reflect reality. This nearly ensures overperformance by Trump.
Early voting has been huge. This renders recent events more and more insignificant. The votes were already cast from anyone whose mind might be affected by those events.
clarifying, the women/men ratio of 2020 early voting was 56%/44%. The final ratio closed.
Right. The early voting breakdown this year of men / women is slightly better for the GOP than it was in 2020.
More importantly, the biggest increase in women voters looks to be coming from Red areas.
So, if men show up in the expected numbers on Tuesday, Trump should win.
We made a 70-mile trip in Texas Tuesday.
Yard sign count:
Trump/Vance: 100+
Cruz: 70+
Harris: 2 [TWO!] (in separate towns...)
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Apparently, you live in a different demographic environment...
Whether most folks “wake up” or not, the algorithm and the vote harvesters are not affected. The bit of panic in the Party will mean that the voting machine algorithms will be set to higher and higher ratios.
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