Trump's Electoral Victory: A Shift in Democratic Strategy

The Democrats' defeat signals a need for introspection and a return to common sense principles.

### A Resounding Victory: Trump’s Electoral Success and the Democratic Party's Challenges
* 🗳 The final Electoral College tally shows President Donald Trump with **312 votes** compared to Kamala Harris's **226**, marking a **significant victory for Trump**.
* 📉 In contrast to previous elections, Trump improved his standing from **304 electoral votes in 2016**, while Biden had **306 in 2020**, indicating a **shift in voter sentiment**.
* 💔 The Democratic Party appears to have **lost its connection with voters**, as many felt **alienated by the party's use of judgmental labels** rather than engaging in **meaningful discussions**.
* 💼 Trump's appeal centered on basic desires for **economic prosperity, safe neighborhoods, and practical education**, resonating with voters seeking a **return to normalcy**.
* 🌍 The election results in traditionally Democratic strongholds like California and New York showed narrowing margins, with California's lead **shrinking from 29 points in 2020 to a mere fraction** this year.
* 🧠 The election outcome signals a potential need for the Democratic Party to reassess its principles, as a rejection of **"wokeism"** and a call for a **meritocracy** gained traction among voters.
* 🔍 The future of the Democratic Party hinges on whether it can **introspectively adapt to these electoral realities**, as some voices within the party suggest a **return to more centrist values**.
* 🤔 Ultimately, if the current leadership remains **disconnected from the electorate**, Republicans may find themselves in a position of **sustained electoral advantage** for the foreseeable future.

the final tally, it looks like, is going to be 312 Electoral College votes for President Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris's 226. Just for context, in 2016, Trump won with 304 electoral votes, and Biden won in 2020 with 306. So, it's a pretty sweeping victory. He won all the supposed swing states this year fairly resoundingly. There's no real super close calls; there's some close calls, but a pretty resounding victory. What happened? Wow, it's a really good question. I think that there's many layers to the answer, but I think in its most basic calculation, I think that the bottom fell out of the Democratic Party. If you look at why, there's a simple explanation and then there's the more nuanced explanation. I think the simple explanation is like they just lost the script. I think that there were so many people that just got really tired of being spoken at and labeled misogynist, racist, fascist, transphobe, whatever it was, and there was just this litany of these judgmental

labels that would come out instead of engaging on the topics at hand. So, I think the Democratic Party played this game of trying to use identities, genders, races as a bid to basically get people that they thought should always vote in their direction to continue to support them. And instead, what happened was people just started to think for themselves and say, Hold on a second. I'm just a normal person that wants to be left alone. What matters to me? And I think what Donald Trump spoke to was a desire for folks to have economic prosperity, a safe neighborhood, a predictable educational curriculum where these kids could go to school, not be indoctrinated, and come out the other side and just know some useful skills so that they could get a good job and do better than they did. And all these basic truths ended up on the ballot, and so it was a bunch of perception versus just a bunch of hard realities. And I think Trump stayed focused and ultimately made sure that people understood that that's what he was.

focused on, and I think the Democrats just went to this place of demagoguery and labels, and I think it was just a resounding defeat. And David, I just want you to like just to put a pin in on how resounding it is in California and New York, which I would say are the two most prolific bastions of elitist liberal thinking. Democrats won those states in some of the narrowest margins they've ever seen. I think in 2020 they won California by 29 points. It was barely half is what they won by this year. In New York, it shrunk to a 12-point margin. So, what is this telling you? It's telling you that the Democrats really need to retool and get back to first principles. It was a cataclysmic dismissal of wokeism, of cancel culture, of judgmentalism. It was a ringing endorsement of a meritocracy, of just plain simple common sense, of talking with people and to people, being able to tolerate disagreements, remaining friends, all of those things were on the

ballot, and it was just an absolute resounding victory for just normal. That's what I think we saw. We saw a return to normal. Is this the nature of democracy, that over time, when you have a two-party system, and one party veers too far to the left, or one party veers too far to the right, people jump ship to the other party, and ultimately, they pull the policies of the party that they left back to the middle? And that's the way democracy is supposed to work and has worked historically. So, is this the way it's supposed to go? And do we project that four years from now, the Democrats will need to be and need to adjust to the center, and we'll see less of this extremism because of the way the voting turned out this election cycle? I think that's a very interesting question, is whether the Democrats have the necessary introspection to learn from this loss. I would say that one of them does. If you look at Mat Glacius, who's someone I've sparred with on Twitter X, who is a

Democrat partisan. He basically tweeted a list of principles that he thought the Democratic Party needed to adopt. I read it and retweeted. I said, laughing my ass off, this is a list of Republican principles. It was all about, you know, opposing woke and being in favor of merit and innovation tolerance. I'm like, Look, you know what? If the Democratic Party wants to adopt these principles, that's a wonderful thing for the country. I hope that they do it, okay? But will they do it? I have my doubts. You look at this tweet by Ari Fer where he talks about who the Democratic Party now is. Yeah, I think that this is a really important tweet because it sort of tells you, Sak, who's going to be left in the room. Exact, if these are the only people left in the room, the last thing they're going to do is admit defeat, right? Exactly. So what you see is that the Democratic Party base is these very affluent, very overeducated, very non-religious types, and frankly, I wonder whether they're too

out of touch to know they're out of touch. They're certainly very whiny and entitled, and I just don't think they're going to cede control of the party without a fight. And frankly, they've disappeared so far up their own woke asses that I don't think they can find an electoral majority if they try. So if these people stay in control of the party, and these are the people who you're seeing having a mental breakdown on TikTok, they're posting all the videos, they're insulting the electorate. And let's face it, it's not just on TikTok, it's on the Legacy Media, it's on MSDNC. It's basically the Legacy Media who are trying to diagnose a psychosis in the American electorate to explain why they were so wrong. If those people stay in control, I think that the Republicans could have an electoral majority as far as the eye can see.

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All-In Podcast

Donald Trump is projected to win 312 Electoral College votes, while Kamala Harris is at 226, marking a resounding victory for Trump.

The Democratic Party's struggle to connect with voters and their use of judgmental labels may have contributed to their downfall.

Trump's focus on economic prosperity, safe neighborhoods, and a predictable education system resonated with voters, ultimately leading to his success.

Democrats' Narrow Wins and the Call for Change

The Democrats experienced narrow victories in California and New York, signaling a need for retooling and a return to first principles.

The election results were seen as a rejection of wokeism and cancel culture, and an endorsement of common sense and meritocracy.

The discussion raises the question of whether the Democrats will adjust their policies towards the center in response to the election outcome.

The Democratic Party's Principles and Base

A Democrat tweeted a list of principles he believed the Democratic Party should adopt, which the author found to be aligned with Republican values.

The author expressed doubt that the Democratic Party would actually adopt these principles.

The tweet highlighted the affluent, overeducated, and non-religious base of the Democratic Party, raising questions about their willingness to admit defeat.

A certain group within the party is perceived as whiny and entitled, making it unlikely for them to cede control without a fight.

Their focus on "woke" issues is seen as a barrier to finding an electoral majority.

The group's presence on social media and in the Legacy Media is causing them to struggle in understanding the electorate, potentially giving the Republicans a long-term advantage.