How Could Trump Win Twice? The Short Answers
Democrat supporters continue to show astonishment that someone like Trump could win the seat of the president twice. This means that liberals and liberal-adjacents continue to ignore what the Democrats did — and didn’t do — to result in this.
Here is a short refresher post to answer those questions for them, and to ask them to put the emotions aside and consider these matters from a more rational standpoint. If they do, and hold the Democratic Party accountable for what it does but shouldn’t do, and doesn’t do but should, it will no longer be a mystery as to why the working class as a whole threw their lot in with Trump — again.
The main concern of working class people who are not liberals or their adjacents is bread and butter issues, not party loyalty or identity politics.
The Democrats did nothing for them economically, and things got substantially worse for most workers during the four years of Biden than it was during the four years of the Trump 1.0 administration (and it was plenty bad then).
Hence, working class people care more about how to afford their next meal; shelter; medical care; transportation to and fro here and there; travel; utilities; and simple psychologically needed recreation et al than they care about Gay Pride flags being plastered everywhere, or more PoC in positions of power, and who can or cannot use this or that bathroom.
And aggressively pushing minority forms of sexuality or expression in their faces rather than simply supporting a basic “live and let live” atmosphere that respects everyone.
Pushing the latter wedge issues in front of the former material matters while ignoring the former more or less completely (save via some empty talk) was seen as more obnoxious than Trump’s personality and counter-productive to the basic material needs of the working class.
That allowed Trump to take the role of a fake populist who was finally going to help the working class.
Working class people do not like war, and do not like billions of dollars being spent on military force to resolve world problems that are not being spent on the above bread and butter issues.
So, stop cheering for war when a Democrat president starts one. Stop acting exactly like the conservatives did during the 2000s when it comes to feeding the Military Industrial Complex and start opposing it again like you did back then. Stop supporting or opposing this or that policy depending on whether or not the Democrats are doing so.
Instead, support or oppose any given policy based on traditional pro-democracy, pro-working class, and anti-war principles that transcend any party. Otherwise, you will come off as standing for nothing save for party loyalty and “team spirit.”
We want our resources put into saving lives, not destroying them. And we want better ways to resolve global issues than blowing some “enemy” into oblivion. And we do not want a cataclysmic world war, let alone a nuclear exchange.
And too many of us now know that war is a profitable business industry, and hence every single war should be seen as highly suspect. The latter industry is pernicious and destructive, and it needs an endless supply of “enemies” to stay profitable.
Stop insulting various demographics — e.g., men or white people — if you do not want them fleeing into the arms of the Right.
If you declare certain demographics your enemy, and tell them they need to accede any voice in running society and cuck themselves for some other demographics rather than making everyone equal, you’re going to cause them to turn against you (i.e., your favored party).
That is common sense, and it reveals why identity politics garners divisions, not unity.
Note to liberals and liberal-adjacents: DEI and other manifestations of Left Identity Politics may be “feel good” to you, but they piss off everyone who is not a liberal or adjacent thereof. And that includes the many of us on the Classical Left, and many people from the various demographics these politics purport to defend or uplift.
Ask the multitude of PoC, women, and LGBTQs who lost spending power and economic stability during the past decade of Left Identity Politics. Does it surprise you that they too are more concerned with bread and butter issues? And more concerned about universal policies that elevate all of them economically instead of positioning a few members of their demographics into positions of power within the capitalist hierarchy?
Stop choosing horrible billionaire candidates who are virulently pro-war and run on “vibe” rather than a serious economic plan for the working class.
Stop continuing to support billionaire rule by taking sides with one wing of the Capitalist Duopoly over the other. Both are funded by the same sets of billionaires, and their public squabbles across party lines during election cycles are all theater. In actuality, unlike most people in the working class at the present time, all capitalists are class conscious.
They are loyal to their class over any group of people based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion (or lack thereof), etc. And they are loyal to their class over the working class, or any demographic populations within it.
Hence, voting in Democrats is not going to make things better for the working class on the economic front, and identity politics of either the Left or Right variety (e.g., Zionism) are simply emotionally charged distractions that play into the hands of billionaire rule. They keep the working class divided and angry at each other instead of the handful of people with the actual privilege, and the system that perpetuates this archaic status quo.
Learn to look past that emotionally distracting smoke screen and focus on the material issues that the Left as a whole used to be about prior to the Carter years.
Focus on opposing class/billionaire rule instead of simply the Republicans. And stop treating politics as a type of “team sport.”
The Democrats and Republicans in office are united in supporting the capitalist class. Neither has done a damn thing for the working class in recent memory. Get your priorities straight and insist that whatever party you support starts supporting the working class in reality instead of through populist talk alone… and then going and doing what both Biden and Trump did after getting elected.
Remember that your team is the working class, not the Democrats, or the Republicans… or any party. It’s the principles and policy that matters, and whom they actually serve, not the party.
That’s the short version. Learn your lessons, Dem supporters, or continue losing — followed by winning and losing to the other wing of the Duopoly in cyclical fashion as each one fails the working class in turn while continuing to keep the Duopoly and billionaire rule intact. And the continued impoverishment of the working class along with it.