Emergency Blog: Trump Takes Back Power in Landslide Victory

Donald Trump is going to be the 47th President of the United States, after an historic, dominant election victory on Tuesday. Here are my thoughts on how it happened and what it means.

• Kamala Harris was a bad candidate, because no one actually likes or cares about her. She ran an awful, failed campaign in 2020 and was only the nominee in 2024 because there was no campaign. Joe Biden never should have run for re-election, and even when he did, the Dems should have run a primary instead of hand-picking Harris.

• Trump, on the other hand, has lots of people who care about him -- and that was the difference. People who voted for Trump were voting for him. The people who voted for Harris were voting against him, not for her. That gave Trump a massive advantage right from the start of the campaign.

• Harris could have at least stood a chance if she separated herself from Biden -- but at no point did she, especially on the genocide in Gaza. And make no mistake -- that cost her in the state of Michigan. Like, not winning Southend Dearborn, Michigan -- a 90+% Muslim county -- after Biden won it easily in 2020 -- should be the biggest story of the election.

• Even on the smartest thing Harris did all election cycle -- naming Tim Walz as her VP -- she managed to fumble. Walz should have been on every podcast that Trump and JD Vance were on. They should have unloaded him. Instead, they censored him and let the Trump campaign portray him in a certain way. Just an absolute failure.

• The biggest layup the Dems have given Trump -- going all the way back to 2016 -- is running to the right of their own base. Look at what happened in Missouri. The state voted in favour of paid sick leave and an increase in minimum wage, among other progressive policies. Yet Trump won the state in a landslide. And that is because the Dems have long been afraid of being labelled "too liberal" by Trump and the Republicans, so they trot out the likes of Liz Cheney to appeal to nonexistent, centre-ish voters. But guess what? They get labelled "too liberal" by Trump and co' anyways, so why not just run on policies that are actually very popular among the American people? (If I had to guess, the Dems will move even further to the right ahead of 2028)

• Trump ran a 2024-style campaign, while Harris ran a 2004-style campaign. If it wasn't known after 2016, it should be now -- celebrity endorsements actually mean nothing. A family of four in Pittsburgh does not care who George Clooney or Beynoce is voting for. Do you know who the two 18-year-olds in that household are more likely to be influenced by? Online content creators like the Nelk Boyz and Aidn Ross -- among other right-wing grifters who burst onto the scene in the election cycle.

• Yes, it is a great time to be a grifter. The right wing has mastered it. The Nelk Boyz, Aidn Ross, Antonio Brown, etc. Finding online grifters in 2024 > having a ground game in battleground states.

• The "establishment," "machine," or whatever you want to call the rich in Washington is dead. The people are more powerful than what is said on, say, CNN. The establishment has to reestablish itself.

• All this aside, Trump's second term will of course be very damaging. The bloodshed in Gaza will only get worse, there will be massive setbacks in the fight against climate change, the tax cuts for the rich will only expand the wealth gap, and healthcare will only get more inaccessible for millions of Americans. Everyone in the Democratic Party who let this happen should resign. The party needs to be blown up.

• As for Canada, this is bad news for Justin Trudeau and Canadians. An already declining economy will likely get worse, assuming Trump hits Canada with tariffs. And most Canadians believe Pierre Poilevere is better equipped to handle Trump than Trudeau is (I guess that is true in the sense that Poilevere is more likely to bend the knee to Trump)