Posted on 11/06/2024 5:18:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The forces that propelled President-elect Donald J. Trump to victory will be endlessly analyzed. Many Americans woke up on Wednesday morning shocked that he could win again. But there is no doubt about one thing: Mr. Trump was a ferociously effective campaigner.
To watch him up close on this third run for president was to see him blend comedy, fury, optimism, darkness and cynicism like never before. He was an expert communicator, able to transmute legal and mortal peril to build upon his self mythology. He won new supporters and kept old ones in thrall.
At dozens of events, I watched as he connected with all sorts of people in all sorts of places. Suburban mothers in Washington, D.C. Military personnel in Detroit. Evangelicals in South Florida. Bitcoiners in Nashville. College football fans in Alabama. Firemen in Lower Manhattan. At rallies in Charlotte and Atlanta and Bozeman and Virginia Beach and the Bronx and beyond, I had countless conversations with people who were quick to dismiss or rationalize whatever controversy happened to be swirling around him at any moment. People saw in him whatever they wanted to see. And they believed that, after so many years, they knew him, and that he knew them, too.
“He gets us,” a hay and beef cattle farmer told me one afternoon in September in Smithton, Pa. It seemed a head-spinning assessment, but one I heard constantly and in the most unlikely of places. How could the man with the silver spoon and the golden triplex above Fifth Avenue understand anything about this woman’s life? “He just knows where we’re coming from,” she shrugged.
We were standing inside a barn when she said this. Mr. Trump was a few yards away, sitting at a big wooden table. Behind him were stacked bales of hay...
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The bi-coastal elite hate us and want us all dead.
How did he connect with so many Americans? Real simple: he spoke to us, understanding that we are angry as all get out, and he gave us hope that we could turn this around.
How?? We/they did the exact opposite of what the NYSLimes told everyone to do....pretty simple.
That is what most people want.
Because Americans have eyes and can see with clarity their lived experience?!?!?
Bingo!
I challenge the author of this piece to find one other person in the history of human civilization who could win an election with the support of both Muslim and Amish voters.
And we share the love of America when the other side wants to destroy it. Trump LOVES the USA and wants it to be the greatest nation on earth. I love that about him and no one else comes close to expressing that love.
A wolf shall dwell with a lamb, and a leopard shall rest with a kid; a calf, and a lion, and a sheep shall dwell together, and a little child shall drive them.
God blessed Trump.
One of his neat tricks was to not call ordinary Americans Nazis, Fascists, or Garbage.
He also didn’t set up and subsequently imprison innocent patriots that were lured into the capital building on J6 and given tours by the capital police in many cases (and one was murdered by the capital security thugs).
From the article: “There was often a split screen between the way the news media interpreted the things Mr. Trump said and how his voters heard them.”
This hearkens back to Salena Zito’s observation in 2016 that Trump’s supporters take him seriously, not literally, while his opponents take him literally but not seriously.
A better question is why do so many neo fascist wanna bes in the Alt Left Political Media cult of hate still not get it? “This is what democracy looks like” clown show,
Funny how Alt Left clown show were all “defending democracy” until people actually voted.
The missed assassination was a pretty big sign to me that God wanted Trump where he is headed now. I had some fear the dims might cheat and steal the election again but that didn’t happen either or at least enough to defeat Trump again. I was cautiously optimistic. Enough so that I stayed up until about 4 this morning. I went to bed much earlier in 2020 with dread that was later fulfilled by ensuing events. Any Freeper should be ecstatic right now or at least like I am quietly satisfied with things and sporting an enigmatic hidden smile.
Trump is an expert at finding common ground and making deals. RFK went to Kamala first and she wouldn’t even give him the time of day, then he went to Trump and they made a deal. That was the difference in this election. If you don’t follow party doctrine 100% then extremist Democrats consider you a Nazi racist bigot deplorable.
He has the ability to speak in a room full of people and you feel he is speaking to you personally. Kind of hard to explain. Bill Clinton has or had, similar ability. And President Trump has an honesty about him that you know he cares about what your concerns are, that he makes them his concerns to. He walks the walk and is genuine. Unafraid. Fearless. He goes anywhere into the most hostile of venues and speaks his mind. Answers your questions for hours. You may not always agree with his positions but you know he listened to and heard you. And you know his answers and positions. And he’s a counter puncher. He takes no crap from anyone and fights back.
He is describing God's own messenger. Nothing else explains Donald J. Trump's character-arc.
Yeah, but more Elmer Gantry than Ronald Reagan.
Daniel 12:10 “Many will be purged, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand”
One could argue that there are some culturally conservative similarities between Muslims and the Amish, but to win MI with the Muslim and anti-recent immigrant vote? That takes real political finesse.
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