Under the cloud of Donald Trump’s election this week, light is being shed on some things that, to be candid about it, make his election more troubling than I thought it was.
No, it wasn’t the economy that was the real issue. Instead, what we now know is this:
Trump didn’t win because Republicans and independents voted for him. Kamala Harris lost because too many Democrats and independents decided not to vote .
Let me explain.
As of yesterday (Thursday), these are the numbers: In 2020, Joe Biden received 81,283,056 total votes from Democrats and independents. Kamala Harris received 69,048,230. This means she received 12,348,868 fewer votes than Joe Biden because that many peopel sat out the election.
Trump even got fewer votes this time than he did in 2020, a little less than a million, but of the 13,069,605 fewer Americans who voted this year compared to 2020, the overwhelming number were Democrats and independents.
Kamala even received a smaller percentage and fewer votes among black and Latino voters than Joe Biden did. In 2020 Biden got 91% black vote. Harris got 83%. He got 63% Latino vote. Harris got 56%.
Those percentages alone defeated her. Had she gotten the percentage Biden got in the black and Latino communities in 2020, she would have won by a larger margin than he did.
The question, of course, is why? Why did so many Democrats and independents sit out this election?
You and I both know the answer. It’s not rocket science. It was misogyny and racism.
Kamala Harris lost the presidency, not because Donald Trump was more popular, but because she was a black woman.
The pundits are already missing this obvious reality. They believe the problem was “messaging.” Harris, they insist, didn’t sufficiently separate herself from an unpopular president, especially on economic policies. She didn’t effectively convey a “populist” message that could have captured voters’ attention.
Pundits see what they always see while missing what is staring them in the face. Kamala Harris lost because of who she is and there was not one thing she could have done differently that would have changed what happened.
What is more, there was not anything Trump did that made it happen. He simply benefited from a baked in prejudice against Kamala she simply could not overcome.
Like Hillary Clinton, she lost the electoral college because she was a woman. Unlike Hillary, she lost the popular vote because she was a woman and black.
Perhaps some of the non-voters had other reasons for not voting, but those numbers were miniscule compared with the total number who didn’t.
The ugly truth is that misogyny and racism are alive and well among Democrats and independents who tend to vote Democratic.
The number who chose both over Kamala Harris is in fact numbing: Twelve million, three hundred forty-eight thousand, eight hundred sixty-eight.
Had half of them voted, Kamala would have won. Because they didn’t, we now face four years of an American presidency worse than our worst fears, a presidency no one ever imagined could happen here, but has.
All because white men and women, black men and women, Latino men and women who voted for Joe Biden, didn’t want to vote for Trump, but then refused to vote at all this year because the Democrat was a black woman.
That’s the “reckoning” the pundits ought to be talking about.
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Thank you!
I just posted an article on Facebook about Trump’s strategy with young men especially that was good. It was by Heather Cox Richardson.
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Thanks, Shari. She is one of the few who has even mentioned it.
I was so shocked when I read these numbers. And you’ll here them loudly complaining the next four years about what a terrible president Trump is. As I see it, if you didn’t vote for Harris you need to keep your mouth shut.
So was I, Wilbur. All of is who voted for her should feel betrayed.
Wow, this is your take from the election? Those millions of Americans who rejected the policies of the Democratic Party are Nazis, human garbage, misogynist, and racist. Have you paused to consider you are wrong before denigrating the majority of Americans?
You bet it is, but you obviously didn’t read it carefully or perhaps just didn’t understand it. I was talking about the Democrats and independents who didn’t vote, not people like you who voted for Trump. How did you miss that? Nor did I use the words “Nazis” and human garbage. Maybe you decided to criticize it while reading it didn’t matter. Whatever, next time take the time the read something before you say how bad it is.
So what are you trying to say? That Harris lost because the Democrats and Independents who didn’t vote are the misogynists and racist? That the largest number of black men and Latinos who have EVER voted Republican are misogynists & racist? Like Bill Maher said, you want a reason for why Harris lost, look in the mirror
Finally, you read what I said. Good for you. Yes, I am saying those men (and some women, especially white women) are misogynistic. They even said so themselves in a call-in radio show in Philadelphia. And, yes, racism was also a reason they didn’t vote. If you don’t believe that, you must believe in the Easter Bunny as well. As for looking in the mirror, I hope when you do that you see someone who voted for a convicted felon, convicted sexual predator, convicted fraudster, convicted adulterer, and has been proven to be someone who doesn’t believe in telling the truth under any circumstances. Now that’s something you can really be proud of.
Democrats are already in the circular firing squad, even Nancy Pelosi criticized Biden for not getting out sooner, that is pathetic. The country voted for an infantile, immoral POS over (now) two more than qualified women. That is pathetic also.
Democrats have always been good at shooting ourselves in the foot. I suppose it won’t be any different now.
Have you considered that she lost because of two reasons – the far left wing of the democratic party is simply not appealing to the majority of middle class America – the Woke agenda is quickly fading. Her running mate put Tampons in the boys bathrooms – just one of many examples. Secondly, as Bernie Sanders said, the dem party has left the working people and appeal to the upper class. All of the agenda of the last 4 years with the programs that benefitted the upper class have hurt the working class – the people who are hurt by the cost of gas and groceries – up a whopping 20% or so over the last 4 years.
Yes, I considered them, Steve. That’s all the media pundits are talking about. The problem with what they and you are saying is that the people I’m talking about didn’t vote for Trump. They didn’t vote, period. If they were so fed up with “woke,” as you say (meaning, social justice), and Dems pandering to the upper class, they would have voted for him. The fact is, he got about the same number of votes this time he got in 2020. He didn’t expand his base at all. He just got more people like you who didn’t mind voting for a small, vindictive, convicted felon and sexual predator who tried to overthrow the government. On top of that, for Republicans to talk about Democrats appealing to the upper class is laughable on its face. You are the party of the rich and always have been. Trump will give you another tax break that won’t help working people at all, just as he did in 2017. Dems and independents didn’t vote for Harris, and the Democratic woman from Bethlehem, PA (can’t remember her name) who lost her House seat said in interview when asked why she thought people who voted in 2020 didn’t vote this time said: “I think there was a problem at the top of the ticket.” In other words, at the top of the ticket was a black woman. Had half those people voted this year, Harris would have won. So Trump didn’t win so much as Harris lost, and, yes, I think it was because of misogyny (or “sexism” if you prefer that) and racism.