Why Trump Won – No, It Wasn’t Racism or Misogyny
MAGA voters massively repudiated the authoritarianism from the Corporate Left.
As the fallout continues from Trump’s historic comeback, two types of Democrats have emerged – those who “get it” and realize that their party has lost touch with working class people, and those who have doubled down on the hateful blame game.
The hateful blamers will tell you that Trump won because of racism and misogyny, that half the country consists of literal Nazis AND Fascists.
Never mind that the Nazis were national socialists (it’s literally in the name Nazi!), and the real Fascists under Mussolini, in opposition to the Nazis, were corporatists. Never mind that Nazis and Fascists are two opposing sides of an authoritarian coin. In the projecting mind of the left, Trump is the authoritarian, the dictator, the new Hitler.
Yet, in reality, the average conservative or independent Trump voter is opposed to both socialism and corporatism, given their collective dislike of Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and Big Media. The Trump voter wants less centralized power.
The absolute last thing any Trump voter wants is authoritarianism. And I can guarantee, that if Trump started to squash free speech or levy the power of the federal government against citizens, Trump voters would be among the first to abandon him and be up in arms.
In a nutshell, Trump won because the government and big corporations under Biden overreached in the following ways:
Covid Lockdowns: Led by Democratic governors, states pushed people into draconian lockdowns during covid, with California going so far as to fill skateparks with sand and send the Coast Guard after lone surfers in Malibu.
Dissent Discouraged: Grassroots dissent was discouraged under the labels of “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation.”
Vaccine Mandates: The Biden administration forced covid vaccine mandates on the military and federal workers.
Persecution of Alternative Medicine: The FDA, CDC, and state medical boards, along with Democratic governors like Gretchen Whitmer, ran a false campaign to demonize ivermectin, blocking its prescription for covid, and sometimes removing the medical licenses of doctors who used alternative covid cures. Colloidal silver companies and Xlear nasal spray were also targeted by the FDA for alleged “false” advertising of covid support, despite studies showing colloidal silver is an antiviral and Xlear can help reduce covid viral load in the nasal passages.
Government Censorship: The Biden administration pressured social media companies to censor Americans during the covid pandemic.
Media Gaslighting: Big Tech and Big Media gaslit Americans during the pandemic, telling us vaccine injuries weren’t real and that anyone who claimed the COVID-19 virus came from a lab was being racist.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Peaceful J6 protesters were thrown in holding cells for years without a proper trial, causing multiple suicides and health problems.
Third World Dictatorship Narratives: The Democrat establishment also told us that any questioning of election results was a danger to democracy, and possibly sedition or treason, which is a backhanded way of behaving exactly like a third-world dictatorship where election results cannot be questioned.
Prosecution of Political Enemies: The numerous prosecutions of Donald Trump were most certainly politically motivated, especially since the DOJ decided not to charge Biden for illegally storing classified documents due to his senile state of mine.
Cancel Culture: Big government and big media under Biden/Harris promoted cancel culture, led by attack dogs such as Taylor Lorenz, to doxx, shame, and try to destroy the lives of those who, for example, oppose the medicalization of gender in children.
Attack on Farming: Attacks on Amish farms by the US government, as well as other local farmers here and abroad, were done to potentially facilitate the complete takeover of food production by big companies and governments that want to control what we eat in the name of stopping climate change.
EV Mandates: Democrats want to control what we drive, how far we drive, and where we go, also under the guise of stopping climate change.
Blatant Lies: Despite numerous videos of detransitioners who reported being put on puberty blockers and getting double mastectomies before the age of 18, we are told that child sex changes aren’t happening, when they are. Genuine concerns over kids being transitioned are labeled as hating LGBTQ+ people, even though groups like “Gays Against Groomers” are opposed to child transition because they see trans as a form of conversion therapy.
The final straw was Peanut the Squirrel, when New York state goons invaded a man’s home to capture and kill one tame pet squirrel and one pet racoon. It is highly likely that this event, days before the election, an insane example of government totalitarianism, pushed Trump over the top in the popular vote.
In short, Trump voters are completely against the authoritarianism and totalitarianism exhibited by the Corporate Left and New Democrats. And they were voting against authoritarianism, not for it.
Given their lack of historical understanding of who real Nazis and Fascists were, the left can’t see this. They’ve built their internal sense of identity and pride on being the “kind, compassionate ones” who are opposed to “hate.” The problem is, now that the Republican Party is shifting, and opening its tent to diverse demographics such as Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, the left has not been able to keep up.
Ironically, Trump garnered historic support not just from Jews but from Muslim-Americans. Why? Stopping the war in Middle East is certainly a big motivator, and somehow Trump seems to be able to balance a pro-Israel stance without extending it to a carte blanche for Israel to stoke World War III.
What did Kamala Harris do? Parade around with warmonger Liz Cheney, unrepented daughter of Iraq War criminal Dick Cheney, as if this were some sort of virtue.
Ignoring the clear signs that Trump’s big tent was not about white nationalism, and clueless as to their own authoritarian streak, the left is now flailing around trying to wrap their brains around why their self-constructed bogeyman won.
For example, Ben Cohen of The Banter wrote on Substack Notes just before Trump’s win:
If Trump wins this thing, it won’t be because Kamala Harris ran a bad campaign. It will be because malevolent billionaires have mindfucked Americans into believing up is down, left is right, and Donald Trump is a genius. The level of disinformation Fox News, Twitter, and right wing media outlets pump out on a daily basis is truly insane, and they have now taken a fascist maniac within a hair’s breadth of the White House. Again.
Cohen here doesn’t actually articulate what the so-called disinformation was. And herein lies one of the key disconnects between the clueless left and, well, just about everyone else.
As Zachary Levi wrote in his election day letter:
I would argue that all of our fears, and therefore all of our opinions, come down to where we’re deriving our information from. And that can be summed up, albeit in very general terms, by whether or not you still trust the legacy media.
My friends on the Left, by and large, still do. My friends on the Right, by and large, do not.
Thus, the key here is that those on the left are driven to fear and loathing of Trump and his supporters precisely because they are steeped in the dominant narratives of large, corporate media entities, whether they be television news conglomerates or legacy newspapers like the New York Times.
While the left likes to point fingers at “billionaires” like Elon Musk, they ignore the billionaires on their own side, like Bill Gates and George Soros. They ignore the $100 billion that Pfizer made thanks to covid vaccines. They ignore the rich white men and billionaires funding the trans movement, and they ignore the big money to be made from a lifetime of synthetic hormones and surgeries. And the left didn’t care that billionaire Jeff Bezos owned the Washington Post, until he decided not to endorse Kamala Harris for 2024.
In addition to forgetting that big media comes from big money, the left can’t fathom that the New York Times might have very human reporters who are prone to biases, prejudices, and errors. Even today as I write this, after Trump won Arizona, the New York Times still has Trump with just 295 electoral college votes instead of the 312 he actually won. This is bias. They don’t want to admit just how badly Kamala Harris lost.
But what news outlets are Trump supporters getting their news from? In contrast to the cartoon conservative that many liberals imagine in their minds, it’s not primarily Fox News. It’s grassroots publications like those on Substack, or Breitbart, The Federalist, The Gateway Pundit (founded and run by a gay conservative), The Conservative Treehouse, Zero Hedge and many others that fly under the radar but are always speciously labeled “far-right” when they pop up in biased search engines. It’s user-run communities on Telegram. It’s also now X.
What is the left’s response to this grassroots movement? To try to censor and silence grassroots media, calling it “disinformation” or “misinformation.” I myself was permanently banned from Medium for calling covid vaccines dangerous.
Who was it that tried to set up a disinformation czar in our federal government, with a tacit purpose to silence Americans who dissent? Who also pressured social media companies to censor Americans during the pandemic? It wasn’t the Trump administration, it was the Biden administration.
In short, the real grassroots, from-the-ground-up, anti-authoritarian movement in the United States is the MAGA movement. MAGA doesn’t want to censor you or put in a government that will control every aspect of your life. MAGA wants the government to stand down and get out of your damn way. MAGA also doesn’t want big corporate entities controlling everything we read, watch, and eat.
One more point: What about abortion, you say?
The confusion for the left comes from the equation of sex rights vs. every other right. By sex rights, I mean, the right to an abortion and the right to things like pornography, sex changes, and sexual orientations.
When Kamala Harris talked about “freedom,” this was what she was really talking about.
Modern leftist authoritarians, as with HG Wells’s Brave New World, want to trick you into believing you are free as long as you are free to have sex without consequences. Otherwise, they are more than happy to silence your speech, control your travel, and limit your food supply.
It’s this fundamental difference that marks the disconnect between MAGA and anti-MAGA.
To be clear, MAGA by and large doesn’t care who you sleep with. What they don’t want is to have to agree with your lifestyle.
Some MAGA people are pro-choice. Some are vehemently pro-life. The pro-life person genuinely believes abortion is murder, and as such, doesn’t equate the right to an abortion as a right, much like everyone reading this understands none of us have a right to murder someone else. The abortion issue is certainly the one area that MAGA is perhaps not 100% total “freedom,” but this depends on how you look it.
But on almost every other measure, barring what is done to children, MAGA is on the side of freedom.1
Let me reassure you, MAGA people do not have any desire to put anyone in camps, force women to be barefoot and pregnant, or stop gay people from having sex with one another. But they don’t want to be forced to agree with your pronoun choice, they don’t want to have to pay for unfiltered immigration when Americans are starving and homeless, and they don’t want to be mandated to take your newfangled mRNA vaccines or wear masks that studies show don’t work.
Get it?
Please send to your liberal friends who don’t.
UPDATE (The Next Day)
Grifter Mary Trump. who has made herself quite a bit of cash off her namesake as the anti-Trump family member, has commenters who are now calling for Biden to declare martial law and throw everyone who voted for Trump in jail. Exhibit A as to who the REAL authoritarians are in America - the initial post by “Anti Fascist” appears to be a troll, but his comment got 60+ likes and the next commenter doubled down:
We need to throw Trump and all his MAGAt voters in jail to save our sacred Democracy!
Yes, 100%. Biden needs to declare Martial Law and arrest them all. We don't invite nazis to the WH for tea. We punch back.
How can they sit back and watch this happen to America. Peaceful transfer of power to nazis...
Talk about having ZERO self-awareness!
The hysteria on the left about “book banning” is disingenuous and a false canard. Of course we select which books our kids should have access to in K-12 school libraries. We should not have any pornography in schools, regardless if it’s straight or gay porn. Would the left be OK if the local school library was filled with pro-gun or anti-vaccine books? Of course not. They’d ban those books in a heartbeat.
I'm seeing a whole lot of leftists utterly shell-shocked this morning. They were clearly blindsided by the election results, which is hardly surprising given how blatantly CNN, ABC, and NBC were cheer-leading for Kamala Harris and making it seem like everyone felt that way.
I have to give credit to Fox News for hosting that woke-liberal talk-show "The View." Though most of the Fox shows and commentators were clearly in Trump's camp, "The View" was an active reminder that not everyone felt that way. If Harris had managed to win the election, Fox Viewers who occasionally tuned into 'The View' would have had some clue why. That give-the-other-side-a-say balance was completely absent in the Democratic media, with the result that one half of America was completely in the dark about what the other half of America was feeling.
So far all I'm hearing from the leftist press is "misinformation" "misogyny" and "racism". Maybe at some point they will recognize that some fearless introspection is required.
In response to a comment on Notes where a woman dismissed this article as "wishful thinking" and brought up the Patriot Act and "Project 2025":
You don’t get it. With Kamala Harris being backed by the Cheney and Bush families, SHE would be the new Patriot Act. The covid censorship orchestrated by the Biden administration, the CDC, and the FDA, was also not wishful thinking. The Biden administration also tried to set up a disinformation czar and only backed off when people rallied against it. But the Biden admin did pressure Big Tech companies to censor.
The Democrats also pushed vaccine mandates, and leftist cancel culture will viciously go after anyone who is concerned about medicalizing gender in kids or try to ruin the lives of doctors for prescribing the highly safe, Nobel prize winning ivermectin. I could go on.
In short, the Democrats have become the party of authoritarianism, and canards over Project 2025, which Trump has repeatedly said he’s not a part of, are a sidestep from what the Democrat authoritarians have ALREADY DONE. I am a woman, I voted against Harris because I voted against war, against censorship, and against medical mandates. I voted against Big Pharma running the FDA. I voted against lies and dividing Americans over gender and race. I voted against hate when I voted against the Democrats.