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the final tally it looks like is going
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to be 312 Electoral College votes for uh
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president Donald Trump versus comma
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Harris is
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226 just for context in 2016 Trump won
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with 304 electoral votes and Biden won
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in 2020 with
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306 so it's a pretty sweeping Victory he
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won all the supposed swing States this
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year fairly resoundingly there's there's
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no real super close calls there's some
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close calls but but pretty resounding
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victory
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chth what happened wow it's a it's a
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really good question I think that
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there's many layers of the
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answer but I think in its most basic
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calculation I think that the bottom fell
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out of the democratic party and if
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you look at
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why there's
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a simple explanation and then there's
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the more nuanced explanation I think the
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simple explanation is like they just
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lost the
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script I think that there was so many
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people that just got really tired of
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being spoken
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at and
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labeled misogynist racist fascist
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transphobe whatever it was and there was
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just these Litany of these judgmental
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labels that would come out instead of
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engaging on the topics at hand so I
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think the Democratic Party plate this
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game of trying to use
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identities genders
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races as a bid to basically get people
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that they thought should always vote in
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their direction to continue to support
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them and instead what happened was
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people just started to think for
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themselves and say hold on a second I'm
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just a normal person that wants to be
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left alone what matters to me and I
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think what Donald Trump spoke to was a
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desire for folks to have economic
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prosperity a safe
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neighborhood a predictable educational
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curriculum where these kids could go to
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school not be indoctrinated and come out
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the other side and just know some useful
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skills so that they could get a good job
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and do better than they did and all
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these basic truths ended up on the
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ballot and so it was a bunch of
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perception versus just a bunch of hard
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realities and I think Trump stayed
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focused and
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ultimately made sure that people
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understood that that's what he was
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focused on and I think the Democrats
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just went to this place of demagoguery
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and labels and I think it was just a
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resounding defeat and David I just want
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you to like just to put a pin in on how
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resounding it
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is in California and New York which I
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would say are the two most prolific
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bastions of elitist liberal
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thinking Democrats won those States in
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some of the narrowest margins they've
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ever seen I think in 2020 they won
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California by 29 Points it was barely
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half is what they won by this year in
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New York it shrunk to a 12-point margin
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so what is this telling you it's telling
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you that the Democrats really need to
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retool and get back to First principles
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it was a cataclysmic
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dismissal of wokeism of cancel culture
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of
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judgmentalism it was an ringing
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endorsement of a meritocracy
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of just plain simple common
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sense of talking with people and to
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people being able to tolerate
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disagreements remaining
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friends all of those things were on the
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ballot and it it was just an absolute
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resounding victory for just
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normaly that's what I think we saw we
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saw a return to normaly is this the
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nature of democracy that over time when
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you have a two-party system and one
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party veers too far to the left or one
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party veers too far to the right people
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jump ship to the other party and
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ultimately they pull the policies of the
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party that they left back to the middle
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and that's the way democracy is supposed
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to work and has worked historically so
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is this the way it's supposed to go and
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do we project that four years from now
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the Democrats will need to be and need
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to adjust to the center and we'll see
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less of this extremism because of the
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way the voting turned out this this
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election cycle I think that's a very
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interesting question is whether the
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Democrats have the necessary
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introspection to learn from this loss I
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would say that one of them does if you
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look at Mat glacius who's someone I've
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sparred with on on Twitter X who is a
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Democrat partisan he basically tweeted a
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list of principles that he thought the
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democra party needed to adopt I read it
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and retweeted I said laughing my ass off
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this is a list of Republican principles
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it was all about you know opposing woke
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and being in favor of Merit and
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Innovation tolerance I'm like look you
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know what if the Democratic party wants
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to adopt these principles that's a
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wonderful thing for the country I hope
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that they do it okay but will they do it
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I have my doubts you look at this tweet
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by Ari fer where he talks about who the
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Democratic party now is yeah I think
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that this is a really important tweet
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because it sort of tells you Sak who's
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going to be left in the room exact if
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these are the only people left in the
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room the last thing they're going to do
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is admit defeat right exactly so what
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you see is that the Dem Democratic party
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base is these very affluent very
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overeducated very non-religious types
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and frankly I wonder whether they're too
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out of touch to know they're out of
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touch they're certainly very whiny and
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entitled and I just don't think they're
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going to
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seed control of the party without a
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fight and frankly they've disappeared so
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far up their own woke asses that I don't
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think they can find an electoral
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majority if they try so if these people
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stay in control of the party and these
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are the people who you're seeing having
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a mental breakdown on Tik Tok they're
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posting all the videos they're insulting
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the electorate and let's face it it's
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not just on Tik Tok it's on the Legacy
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Media it's on msdnc it's basically the
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the Legacy Media who are trying to
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diagnose a psychosis in the American
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electorate to explain why they were so
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wrong if those people stay in control I
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think that the Republicans could have an
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electoral majority as far as the eye can
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see