The people have spoken and what they say is that they want a corrupt, amoral, hateful narcissist as their president.
Donald Trump has always been this way. One might find excuses for how he won his first term in 2016 by saying that he was largely unknown then, a novelty act that a large part of the country was willing to take a chance on. But in the period since then, he has revealed himself very clearly, and surrounded himself with awful people who espouse the same misogynistic, racist, xenophobic, anti-LGBTQ views. And people said, “Yeah, I’m fine with that”.
There will be innumerable postmortems as to how and why this came about. It seems to me that Kamala Harris was a good candidate and ran a good campaign. One can disagree with this or that policy (For example, I strongly disagreed with the way she and Joe Biden addressed the war in Gaza and the Israel-Palestine issue generally) but I doubt that any one of those was a decisive factor in her loss. The voters wanted Trump.
He has also been given control of the Senate and (likely) the House of Representatives and the chance to appoint more right wing US Supreme Court justices and federal judges. Basically, he now has a much freer hand than he had in his first term to wreak havoc and leave lasting damage.
It is said that a country gets the leaders it deserves. It is hard to imagine that any country deserves leadership like this.
But here we are.
I’m pretty sure the House is still undecided. R’s are up, but CA is very slow at counting votes, and there are a lot of outstanding D leaning districts.
You are correct. I have added the word ‘likely’ to my post.
You forgot to mention he is a rapist.
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BTW how long will it be before the last mail-in votes in Philadelpia are counted?
They voted the swamp back in.
America reveals itself.
Actually, given that much fewer people voted this year than in 2020 — as in, tens of millions fewer — maybe we should be saying some parts of America HID themselves.
He got fewer votes than when he lost to Biden. The voters didn’t want Harris. It’s simplistic to say that’s down to racism and misogyny, but I’m sure they played a part in keeping so many voters at home.
“fewer votes so far”, since not all numbers are in yet.
Don’t forget the treason, the pilfered classified documents and the fact that some had obviously been copied and likely sold or given to ???
And yet, when faced with voting for a woman, and a woman of color at that, too many Rill Murkkkuns said “give me the traitorous convicted felon who let over a million people die needlessly because he’s too stupid to understand what a pandemic is and who’s promising to tank our economy by imposing tariffs”.
I’ve been chatting with a friend who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, went to college in Texas, and has lived and worked in my state for about 30 years. He’s worried he’ll be deported to Venezuela despite the facts that Puerto Rico is part of the USA and he is a natural-born American citizen. If Trump ever finds the money for mass deportation, he’s going to do it.
Trump got the absolute majority of the votes (so far) so there isn’t even the excuse of the electoral college this time.
And the real winners are JD Vance, the tech bros (and other billionaires) and the Project 2025 gang (and other christofascists) who will be the real ones in control of the policies. Trump will just be the figurehead puppet until his chaos become too troublesome and he will be dealt with then through the 25th or 14th amendment.