Is there such a thing as an American #NeverTrump majority?
Political observers of all ideological predilections have spent the past nine-plus years searching for the answer. In the beginning, Trump was passed off as a phony, a pretender, a richer-than-rich tabloid celebrity who talked bombastically a lot, catered to his own ego and appeared to be settling personal scores on his way to winning the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and then the presidency itself while vanquishing the Democrats’ “With Her!” candidate who seemed destined to shatter the proverbial glass ceiling.
Be honest. Only Democrats give a hoot about the “glass ceiling”, but they make up most of those who are solid Never Trumpers. Chances are you know one. Fox News’s Jesse Waters regularly tells stories about his mother and how liberal she is. That must make for one heck of an interesting Thanksgiving Dinner table dynamic for the Waters clan.
Never Trump-ism appears to be regional as well, with so-called blue states containing the highest numbers of Trump haters by percentage. These folks are either super-wealthy leftist culture lovers or those inhabiting the bottom rung of society relying on government handouts to live another day. They want a benevolent Democrat office holder or executive department bureaucrat to take care of them; or they’re corporatists hoping the government will set the rules of the “game” and look the other way for crooked behavior.
Yes, these types hate Trump. But together, do they really constitute a fifty-plus-one majority of Americans? In an opinion piece titled “Can Kamala Harris rebuild America’s anti-Trump majority?” Will Marshall wrote at The Hill last week:
“The apparent rapid rebound in Democratic fortunes reminds us that Trump’s Achilles Heel is his low political ceiling. In two presidential races, he has won less than 47 percent of the popular vote.
“Trump relies instead on intense support from working-class voters to win the right states to give him an Electoral College majority. That worked in 2016 when Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 48.2 percent to 46.1 percent, but lost too many states. It didn’t work in 2020, as Biden assembled a national anti-Trump majority (51.3 percent) that helped him prevail narrowly in swing states Clinton had lost. ... Biden won that election in the middle, outperforming Clinton with independent and moderate voters...
“On these and other contentious issues, Trump is leveraging his supermajority among working-class voters to foist minority views on the country. Staking out center-ground positions next week in Chicago will help Harris and Walz rebuild America’s anti-Trump majority.”
No, Will, Biden won the 2020 election by seizing the initiative and relying on “Zuckerbucks” and other vote harvesting techniques to swamp the system with COVID-driven mail-in ballots and took advantage of hapless state legislatures ignoring their own election laws to accept (rather than reject) historically high percentages of ballots.
It all stinks like rotten fish (more on this in a bit), but there’s not much that can be done about it now other than keep speaking the truth and hoping there are enough voters who actually pay attention to issues instead of falling for “first black female president” nonsense and other non-politics related factors that won’t matter a darn to their standard-of-living or day-to-day family budget considerations.
Making up for past wrongs by voting in dumber-than-heck politicians today won’t do much to help everyone, will it?
Marshall’s piece is basically just taking data and manipulating it to make it seem that a majority of people hate Trump. Just so you know which ideological direction Marshall is coming from, his bio reads, “Will Marshall is president of the Progressive Policy Institute.” Enough said.
There’s no denying that there are A LOT of Trump haters, especially on the coasts. One of them managed to hide in plain sight and thwart the incompetent (intentional?) Secret Service operation a month ago. Who knows how many Trump haters are still out there and may be lurking to make another try. It’s something decent, law-abiding Americans live with every day.
As far as achieving the “majority” that Marshall talked about, it’s all an illusion. Sorry, liberals/Democrats, but it doesn’t matter a lick whether cackling Kamala – or Donald Trump – wins the popular vote. Based on recent history and the Democrats’ own innate sense of superiority – or is it belief and trust in their mechanisms to ballot harvest and cheat their way to unimpeachable majorities in urban areas packed with illegal aliens, limousine-leftist cushioning city dwellers, welfare grifters and other steadfast supporters of the status quo and keeping the less fortunate down – Democrats understand that they can run up big vote totals without really doing much.
Why? That’s where potential votes are ripe for the taking. Big cities are chock full of Democrat votes despite high crime rates, lack of job opportunities, corrupt-to-the-core elected officials and liberal special interests that couldn’t give a squat how downtrodden the poor souls might be as long as they’re registered to vote and strongarmed to check “D” on their mail-in ballot.
Executing a similar strategy in rural areas wouldn’t be nearly as productive, would it?
An old saying goes that one should fish where the fish are, right? Well, as I learned from my dad and grandpa, if you’re in a small boat in the middle of a large lake in Minnesota, you’d look for relatively shallow areas where the “weeds” were visible under the water. (Note: This was fishing for northern pike, a vicious predatory fish that favored hiding among the plant life so as to pounce on unsuspecting prey without detection until it was too late for the food. They were water born hunters.)
Dropping anchor in the deepest part of the lake and casting our lines out where there weren’t any fish wouldn’t make much sense, would it? A fishing group could troll for trout in every section of a lake and it might work. But not for every type of fish.
Likewise, Democrat majorities are made from isolating a certain type of voter and dropping anchor. Like kids on Halloween figuring that a neighborhood with small houses on small lots would result in greater amounts of candy than would a tract with big houses, long driveways and huge lots, Democrats “troll” the downtowns like they’re heaven sent.
Unfortunately for the well-informed and less gullible, their votes are cancelled and swamped by those of the easily bought, apathetic and/or “always voted Democrat” types.
Hence, the enduring Democrat popular vote majority emerges. The votes of these “fish” count just as much as anyone else’s on a national scale. You know, one person, one vote? That’s all well and good if every vote were legitimate, all cities and states had universal stringent elections integrity laws – and Democrats were trustworthy. They don’t; and they aren’t.
So Democrats make hay out of the national horserace and can scarcely shut up about Republicans losing every popular vote this century – but one (in 2004, which George W. Bush won against the truly awful John Kerry). Smart money says the GOPers will lose another popular vote this year, since Democrats will fish where their fish are, and not only that, they’re employing large nets and other “catch” strategies to ensure they get what they need.
All of the left’s underhanded dealings related to elections are wholly ignored by the most devoted of the Never Trumpers, the holdouts who swear that never means never and they’d basically prefer chewing off their own arms before conceding that Donald Trump was actually a pretty good president and merits a second term. Or at least admit that he’s a much better option than voting for cackling air-brain Kamala Harris and “Tampon Tim” Walz.
I still maintain that if there are any Republican anti-Trumpers left that that small percentage consists of GOP establishment types (think Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney) or conservatives who wouldn’t vote for the Democrat duo even if they’d refuse to go back to Trump. I haven’t heard lately whether George W. Bush has said anything nice about Trump, though the former president did send well wishes to his party’s nominee-to-be after last month’s assassination attempt.
A clear majority of Democrat anti-Trumpers are single women who vote for the liberal party by a score of +37. The American Spectator’s Scott McKay has touched on this subject a number of times, and he’s pinpointed the reason why the Democrats slant their message and issues towards maintaining the loyalty of this demographic. These are the abortion-on-demand “childless cat ladies” that J.D. Vance joked about three years ago.
The question for this election is if there are enough haggish “The View” watching feminism-first voters to combine with the disgruntled remnants of Republican Never Trumpers and welfare grifters and socialists and communists and “woke” culture destroyers to constitute a majority, as Marshall poses above.
Can Democrats counterbalance the solid near-half of Americans who vote based on the economy, illegal immigration, strong military/foreign policy (no stupid wars), pro-American trade, the cultural future of the country and the people with Trump bumpers stickers who see through the Democrat/establishment media sell job?
Wasn’t it just a month ago that Democrats were hoping against hope that removing Biden would result in an open process where someone other than Kamala Harris could be their presidential candidate? Have they forgotten?
Further, it’s been well documented how the butt-protecting establishment media is bypassing any semblance of accountability for Harris and Walz. The Federalist’s David Harsanyi did a terrific job of detailing just how bad the bias has been. The “anti-Trump” vote denies reality.
As the weeks march by, it’s become clearer that the 2024 election has boiled down to the voters who care about policy and accountability versus those who cling to pipedream social causes bearing no relation to reality. Rush Limbaugh used to say Democrats start each morning with a “How do we fool ‘em today?” orientation; the anti-Trump voter is exactly who the legend was talking about.
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I guess we're finding out just how valuable motherhood has been to civilization. The post baby boom generations demean women. Heck, they won't even stand up for the hard-fought rights of women, gained by prior generations. Vance is right. What a bunch of losers these cat ladies are...and I use the term "ladies" very very loosely.