My fellow * Americans - These are the states that need you the most.
Posted on 10/17/2024 5:45:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Hectoring the electorate on its supposed ignorance or moral shortcomings has become a Harris campaign trademark.
The election is finally shaping up to be not only liberal Democrat Harris versus conservative Republican Trump.
Instead, it has become a larger contest between those who talk down to their fellow Americans and those who are increasingly sick and tired of being lectured. How smart is it, for example, for Harris supporters to claim nonstop that ex-president Trump is a fascist dictator—and thus, by extension, those also who vote for him?
Women voters poll about 53-5 percent for Kamala Harris. Trump enjoys a similar, although likely somewhat smaller, majority margin of male voters.
Yet Harris—along with campaign surrogates Barack Obama and Bill Clinton—has been lecturing both black and white male voters nonstop that they are misled.
Or they supposedly suffer from false consciousness—as if they have no clue that Harris and her progressive agenda are really in their own self-interest.
Such haughtiness reached a zenith when Harris ran ads of actors costumed as supposedly working-class men. They voiced scripted talking points to prove that “real” men are progressive Harris supporters.
But the actors were so patently ridiculous, their canned lines so unreal, that most viewers likely thought the ads were run by Trump himself—to show how arrogant, out-of-touch elites must imagine how the so-called “clingers” and “deplorables” think and talk.
The Trump campaign also tries all sorts of strategies to win over women voters, from promising to rectify the Biden-Harris hyperinflation to reducing spiraling crime in towns and cities.
But one method they avoid is claiming women are ignorant of their real self-interest and deluded by Harris—accurately assuming that a candidate does not win voters by belittling their intelligence.
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While Harris belittles men, I wonder if she can even do maft.
VDH ping
was talking to a friend who is a young black man with a baby momma. he said, and I quote, “I ain’t votin’ for that women. I’m votin’ Trump. she reminds me of my baby momma...0 to bitch in 2 second just that quick”.
My friend took a Hillsdale cruise where VDH lectured about western civilization.
Then a preachy and sanctimonious incumbent Jimmy Carter—ahead in the final October polls over challenger Ronald Reagan—finally turned off voters for good.
The previous underdog Reagan won in a landslide for a variety of reasons. But certainly, one explanation was that the electorate had finally collectively shrugged their weariness. They were sick and tired of Carter’s downer lectures about how they were wrong and culpable.
We know that we are weary of being lectured to by our "elites". Will it matter?
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American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
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The question is if he (ans millions of others) will actually vote. I think that Trump is an appealing candidate for black men. The problem is that group’s history of not voting nearly as much as black women.
I saw her in the gift shop, and thanked her for her participation. She replied, “I am a middle school librarian in Manassas, Virginia. I discovered that I need to read a lot more!”
My fellow * Americans - These are the states that need you the most.
Was that a typo or some Freudian Slippage into what Dr. Hanson's really thinking of current America?
VDH was the featured lecturer on the Hillsdale College Cruise this summer.
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