Along with many, almost too many to count; political commentators and analysts, I am attempting to discover the secret to that truly remarkable political victory by Donald Trump in yesterday’s Presidential Election.
As an Englishman, I hold a somewhat privileged position as far as USA politics go, in that I have read and studied both American politics and politicians by virtue of their speeches, statements and actions; without having any of their many activities resounding too much on either my country, or myself as an individual. A quotation from that inspiring and gifted writer Tom Clancy stated “Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.”
America is an Idea. America is complicated. When the Founding Fathers, those far-sighted men who sat and argued for months before that truly amazing Document which commenced “We, the People”, the proposed Constitution of that brand new Nation; the United States of America, they were determined to avoid, as far as could then be foreseen, the pitfalls and mistakes which had either frozen or altered beyond recognition many of the mainly European nations which existed when those men were preparing Revolution. Their grievances were many, with the Stamp Act, a tax system to make the Colonies pay for the war which to pay off the enormous war debt that the crown had incurred, first amongst many. King George together with his Government, felt that since the war started in North America, the English subjects living there should play a major role in paying for it. In 1765, the King’s newest Prime Minister, Lord George Grenville, introduced the Stamp Act, sparking a wave of protests in all thirteen colonies. The force and intensity of the protests shocked both the King and Parliament, forcing a repeal: and the Founding Fathers determined that their solution was to overthrow the shackles laid upon them by the British Government, with a citizen Army, which ultimately was successful.
When Donald Trump, a billionaire property magnate New Yorker decided to run for the Presidency in 2015-16, he fought his way through the Primaries, adding more States to his name, before being successful as the Republican Nominee for the Presidency. From being a rank outsider, with some regarding him as a joke, he began his campaign, and up until the very day of the Election, was ranked as ‘The Improbable Outsider’. I watched many of his campaign speeches, and realised that here, before our eyes, something new was stirring. From a thriving billion dollar property portfolio, to lay siege to the Machine which was the Democratic Party was literally unknown, but perhaps only possible because he funded his campaign himself. He owed no one any deals, made no-one any promises or special rewards. But the major politicians of both Parties virtually ignored him, and in the very day before the Election, he was given a 3% chance of success. But lots of people had seen and listened to him speak, and millions more had watched those campaign speeches on Facebook and YouTube, because this was possibly the first Digital Election.
The shock, the sheer angst, the disbelief which was shown worldwide by the smug anchor broadcasters of CNN and MSNBC as the 2016 Election was called, not for the surefire bet for Hilary Clinton, but for the rank outsider and brash newcomer Trump, could well have been bottled and sold at a great profit. His Presidency followed, and despite all that the Deep State hurled against him, he came through to become, again in mine opinion, a decent man and a great President. He ran again in 2020, losing to Joe Biden. He claimed ‘Foul’, and ‘Criminal Voter Theft’, but the claims were met with a stolid rebuff by Democratic-appointed judges, and no claim ever reached a court. In the intervening years, more evidence appeared which might have turned things around, but nothing ever reached a court.
So The Donald, now an elderly man, what does he do? Why, he declares himself as a runner for the 47th Presidency, and proceeds to go down the early Primary routes, gathering votes for his Nomination as he disposed of his few opponents. Why? Because thats what is needed if you play by the rules. As I wrote earlier: ‘America is complicated’, and as Tom Clancy opined ‘Principles are important’.
Now we need to look at his Opposition, President Joe Biden, and his Vice-President Kamala Harris. Biden started off well, but his Presidency seemed, to me at least, to be remarkably vague and indecisive. It was way back in March 2021 that I wrote on the sudden and mysterious chop and disappearance of a videoed Press Conference with members of the House Congressmen and the new President, after he began by saying “I’m happy to take questions if that’s what I’m supposed to do, Nance, whatever you want me to do,”. The feed disappeared, and he never resumed that video call. I asked on my own site, “The Democratic Presidential campaign kept ChinaJoe hidden in his basement for most of the campaign, as opposed to President Trump, whose appearances on his campaign trail were only too successful in reminding America who was speaking, and who was hiding. I wonder what the real reason for his silence was? Were the Dems just worried about the Virus, or were they worried that the Big Lie would be discovered? Was ChinaJoe already showing signs of diminished capacity?”
In the months and years that followed, many signs were showing that President Biden was exhibiting signs of mental deterioration, but these stories were ruthlessly culled from any American news source, with the exception being Breitbart News. But, the Democrats managed to sneer loudly enough and ridicule Breitbart, so that middle America never got to hear or discuss the very real fears of their ailing President which were common news overseas. It was almost ‘news standard’ that the strings of actual government were being pulled by a combination of VP Harris, Obama and Biden’s wife, who just loved the thrill of flying in Air Force One. They lied to the American public, and they thought that they could get ‘SleepyJoe’, bouncing on enough cocaine to get him through the Primaries, and then into a Second Term. Unfortunately, those plans came crashing down about forty-odd seconds into the first (and ONLY) Biden/Trump Presidential Debate, when all Trump had to do was keep a straight face whilst observing the collapse of a serving President on National Television to win every second of the disaster which was President Joe Biden debating, exposed for the mental wreck he sadly had become.
The Democrats, panicked beyond belief, arranged for Kamala Harris to be the Democratic Party’s Nominee without a single vote, without a single caucus being established where she would actually run as a Nominee. When Biden announced his decision to drop out of the 2024 race, many delegates who were elected in primaries specifically because they were pledged to vote for him declared their intent to vote for Harris. With Biden out of the race, they are free to vote their conscience, and no other candidate emerged to challenge Harris. But for the first time since 1968, Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee will win the nomination without winning a single primary vote.
And this folks, is where the Democratic Party failed miserably to tell their millions of supporters that, “Well, its okay, but she’s the only candidate we’ve got: and we just don’t have the time to run all those primaries again”!
Haris wasn’t prepared, she hadn’t done her homework, she couldn’t answer a single policy question without tying herself in verbal knots. The only Debate with Trump? He wiped the floor with her, because, like him or loathe him, he is massively prepared: and that, folks, is my belief that huge numbers of confirmed Democratic Party voters turned away from VP Kamala Harris, and chose Trump: because he stuck closely to those Constitutional Rules; and Kamala did not!
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