Posted on 11/06/2024 4:25:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Her campaign pitch was moving, even high-minded. If Vice President Kamala Harris were elected to the White House, she would safeguard the ideals of a good nation. Voters had a choice, she said: democracy, constitutional rights and bedrock freedoms — or Donald J. Trump’s “chaos and division.”
On Tuesday, the nation replied. The answer from more than half of voters seemed to dismiss warnings that Mr. Trump was a threat to principles on which the country had been founded. Abstract truths mattered less, voters said, than tangible issues, like the ability to pay rent or concerns over border crossings. In a time of widespread distrust in institutions, Ms. Harris’s call to protect the nation’s norms rang hollow for many Americans.
In more than 200 interviews across the country in the four days preceding the election, voters, especially in swing states, spoke not of endangered democracy or institutions but of diminished prospects. Their words echoed repeated pre-election polling that showed that majorities of Americans believed the nation was headed in the wrong direction, even as the pandemic had ebbed, the rate of inflation was falling and crime and unemployment rates had remained historically low.
“Electric, water, groceries, my dues for where I live,” said Mary Chastain, 74, a retiree on a fixed income who voted for Mr. Trump on Tuesday in Waleska, Ga., a city of roughly 1,000 people in a rural stretch north of Atlanta. “Everything has gone up.”
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Fixed it.
Yes. False premise.
That’s a whole lot of turd polishing by the NYT.
Loony accusations are “abstract truths”
And by the way, just how ephemeral must NYT think truth to be in order for it to assign an abstract nature to it?
Pretty rich coming from a candidate that didn’t get nominated through a voting process complaining about democracy.
Because Harris and the Democrat media/political machine ran as if the last 8 years never happened. When everything you say is a lie day after day, Fake News, people stop taking you seriously.
M”s. Harris’s call to protect the nation’s norms rang hollow for many Americans.”
Well it should. The norm is that of a republic and not an absolute or pure democracy.
Yup—nothing says “Democracy” like a Politboro booting out one candidate and choosing another.
Since they demonstrated in practice, that they do not follow democratic principles at all, why would voters bother?
Trump could not be any worse than them!
This is patently stupid.
If you get the abstract truths right (see "US Consitution"), the rest will follow.
The people voted and we have a new President. Where’s the undemocratic part?
They seem to have a very different definition of “democracy” from the rest of us.
I always thought that democracy meant “accepting the majority vote”.
Democrats believe in getting their way and calling it "democracy."
Same people who believe in getting their way and calling it "science."
Which party arrested the former president and likely future candidate like some South American dictatorship? All to protect “our democracy”, as in people’s Marxist-Leninist democratic republic. You may vote for anyone you want just so long as it’s Kamala.
For entertainment purposes only.
“… a republic, if you can keep it.”
The presents are revolting.
The author must be thinking of someone else. Shrill gibberish is neither.
Well, to start with, the DNC didn’t even hold a primary and give the people a say in who their candidate was.
So much for democracy......
Biden = the Yuri Andropov of American presidents
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