Donald Trump has defied polls, expectations, the niceties of life like no other campaigner in history of presidential politics.
On Tuesday both nationally and locally he did it again.
On the surface the raw and percentage numbers in Bridgeport, see above from the Connecticut Secretary of the State website, may not jump off the page, but on Tuesday he vastly outpaced his 2016 performance against Hillary Clinton and in 2020 against Joe Biden. The approximate 26 percent of the vote in Bridgeport topped the 16 percent from 2016.
Now, let’s say that based on turnout history roughly 3,500 Bridgeport Republicans voted for him on Tuesday. That leaves approximately 6,000 combined Democrats and unaffiliated that voted for him, a sizable number of Black and Hispanic (predominately Puerto Rican) voters.
For all the hullabaloo over the garbage talk at his Madison Square Garden rally, it did not materialize in an electoral blowback. Voters will overlook a lot if motivated by economic standing, whether here or across all the battleground states which he swept. He also has carried the national popular vote something he did not do against Clinton in winning the presidency elevated by the electoral college that decides presidential elections.
His performance could give Republicans some hope to cut into major Democratic majorities in cities. Republicans tend to write off the cities not understanding that winning is relative. If they invest in cities and snag 25-30 percent of the urban vote it bodes much better for their statewide constitutional and congressional candidates.
Already they’re saying let’s be more like Trump.
As for my former boss, notice he did not push back when called a fascist or a dictator. To his way of thinking I won being called that so why not give them what they want. The next four years, particularly the first two, will be some kind of study in government authoritarianism and breakdown in traditional guardrails and branch checks.
He has the White House, Supreme Court, the Senate and possibly the House.
That is the whole enchilada.
Trump has a mandate to govern. This is gonna be some ride.
I have considered governance behavior for some years now and as a student of democratic activity I reflect, especially as a lifetime resident of the State of Connecticut, I am proud of the saying that CT “is the land of steady habits”. At the moment we are solidly blue, even as I look to the southwest towns and cities where the Trump supporters revealed strength on election day.
As to “becoming more like Trump”, what would that mean from the info I have come to know in the past decade? Shall I shatter my integrity, and begin to “lie” such that listeners cannot believe in what falls from my lips? Shall I surrender my caring about neighbors who require assistance with food, shelter, education, public safety, or property security? Do I concern myself with personal financial gain with no regard for looking to my business effort and the rule of law? Do I concern myself with injustice concerns within the community? Are my spiritual beliefs important to me when I rise to action each day? (Pause to reflect.)
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Trump has been elected according to the news media with a plurality of both electoral and popular votes.
Deeper examination of election results will provide deeper info into what Billions of dollars in messaging purchased during the lengthy campaign. Are you curious?
The underwhelming Bridgeport political party support mostly eliminated “party identity” on signage, red or blue.
But messaging, from wherever, or from all over, did lead to what looks like a 50% turnout at the moment. And whether local voters were exhausted, voted early, voted absentee according to the rules, or went to the polls in person to cast a ballot, it looks like 50% of eligible and registered actuall cast their ballot. Look for gender, diversity, and age demographics to sort all of this soon.
Bottomline: we have elected an older man (though younger than I am) after Democrats changed candidates from Biden the incumbent 100 days from the election, to decrease total votes (2020-D+R=149 Million/2024 D+R = 139 Million). How do parties matter in the time of “digital domination?”
Democrats lost 14 million votes despite new registrations and the significant number of Republicans who publicly abandoned the GOP.
The public needs to pay attention to the words and behavior of each official elected to do our work in the world. Perhaps the 2024 “results” will allow more informed oversight to reach the public and more “casual community conversations” to taste, chew, and digest what we see and hear before voting again? Time will tell.
Thinking of Trump followers conjures an image of lemmings charging off of a cliff. People who voted for Trump after living through his first term and then following his four-year campaign couldn’t possibly have given any thought to what they were doing as they filled in the blank under his name on the ballot.
The big question is; how can a dangerous, fascist idiot mesmerize people (that he promised to hurt) into voting for him. Mass Stockholm Syndrome?! (Maybe Steven Miller was able to conure the spirit of Josef Goebbels and convey advice to Trumps at critical moments in the campaign…)
The takeaway for politicians from this is that if they, over a protracted period of time, consistently speak in multiple directions at once while promising “protection” from occult government and “alien” forces as a refrain, they can do and say just about anything and draw in the ignorant masses under the spell of the promises of a “big Daddy” to protect them and make everything in their lives better. Very similar to the mesmerizing technique of Hitler (but while even much more evil, Hitler wasn’t nearly as dim-witted as Trump…).
The other part of the takeaway is that when mounting a campaign against a politician of Trump’s ilk, there must be a simple, digestible, at once comforting and scary counter-message, wrapped in random, comforting (distracting/confusing) lies and denials of his accusations (applied “Trump-speak”)… Something that gives a powerful takeaway (“feeling”) for very short attention spans… (I had a high school guidance counselor who always ended his advice to his students with the admonishment “Keep it simple, stupid!”)
Well, fasten your seatbelts, America! (In the meantime, try to retrieve all of your old “Occupy” contact information…)
I don’t know about Trump voters being “ lemmings charging off of a cliff”,or”Mass Stockholm syndrome”..I think the reason Trump got so much support was simply for a multitude of reasons..
1.Inflation..People can just about afford to feed their families these days
2.Biden’s cognitive decline..whether perceived or fact.
3.The perception under Biden being “ things have never been this bad.”
4. The Dem’s totally botching up this election cycle.Let’s face it,Biden should have been persuaded to not run again,back from the get go.Basically,even last year at this point,Biden was not viewed as a strong candidate.For the Dems to run this guy,letting him campaign and even let him embarrass himself debating,then,5 months before Election Day,change direction and then hand select,without a primary process,Harris to be their candidate,showed disorganization & weakness,and let’s face it,Harris was perceived to be a weak vice president,in fact,I can’t think of one moment during her term that stands out.
5. Personally,whatever candidate the Republicans put out there would have won at this point.This election wasn’t a validation of Trump,it was definitely a total vote of no confidence in the Biden- Harris regime..
Thank you Harvey Weintraub for your common sense. More Harvey philosophy and less Jeff philosophy.
Rather than summon up all the old “Occupy” and Resistance fighters, see what Trump does coming out of the gate. If he goes haywire which I doubt, then there will be ample opposition.
Harvey, save your rational reasoning. Jeff, with “J” has blinders on and can’t see he’s own Stockholm syndrome, who is lemming off of a cliff” with his typical Liberal guidance and educated mindset that seems to look down at people who do see things their way and views them as “stupid and uneducated”.
It’s hard for him to digest and see how constipated that Liberal rationale philosophy has become and how ineffective can be when it goes off the rails after it hits its equilibrium because they have no sense of common sense.
Speaking of “lemmings charging off of a cliff” how many higher educated guidance Liberalize minded eat up that student loan forgiveness scheme the parade D’s paraded that was never going to happen, were they got to blame the Rs for its failure as an indoctrination tactic?
People see what they want to see. Who tend to only see the idiot it wants to see. Too many questions, seldom any answers bearing fruit.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1047116390270225
To be fair to Jeff, with or without a “G” He only sees what is being reflected on the wall of his liberal cave.
#Plato, philosophize poeple, philosophize 🤣
Things that make you go HMMMM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWlUKJIMge4
My bad, don’t see things. 🙂
To be fair, While Karmal tended to speak beneath people with a generic “we are in this together, Kum Ba Yah, let sit in a circle and take “sensitive/racial training He isn’t wrong about Trump being an idiot/moron.
Trump is a babbling freak show. That Elon story he told at his victory speech was extricating. 🤣
Here’s a thing, when you actual listing to the other side from a neutral position other than a false picture you are projection on the cave wall to the masses. You would’ve heard people who was a staunch supported in in the pass who sat through listing to him speak have stated his is a “flawed” candidate, perhaps, the glue is/was the coded side projected to the faithful. But either way, the alterative was seemingly worse. the Liberal followings lemmings didn’t see it, hear it or care too see or hear. It’s my side against there’s, my philosophy against there’s, Period. To the Cliff. That’s the game I guess, can’t have a game without sides. 🙂
While the Ds’ console and comfort the flock of disbelief as to why Trump won with emotion support sessions. LOL 😂 It is fair to say perhaps the Rs are going to using Trump as plausible deniability to get some needed stuff done in a democratic system where thinks can’t or don’t do. I mean they didn’t try to blow his head off for nothing.
They will control the House, Senate, Oval office and the courts. On a plus side people the Rs, and its philosophy are the party of Lincoln, who fought and won America Civil war that ended the slave practice in America.
Quick philosophy question. It seems that most are in agreement that there were racial, systematic injustice in the police enforcement. What president was in office that had a significant impact like bodycams and needed changes? 🙃
Things that make you go Hmmmm!
https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Bridgeport-PD-without-body-dash-cams-for-over-2-13092428.php
There is no rationale — except mental malfunctioning/incompetence (psycho-social pathological phenomena) — that can explain a democratic electorate choosing a proven, irrational, incompetent/low-IQ, malicious, twice-impeached, seditious, convicted felon/adjudicated sex-offender as POTUS over a rational, experienced, intelligent, non-besmirched alternative choice. The collection of confused, deluded voters that elected Donald J. Trump as POTUS for the second time — after the chaos, criminality, and treasonous climate of his first term, followed by his four-year, divisive, mendacious campaign — cannot be attributed to anything wholesome, righteous, or rational such as shortcomings of the “other side” (no POTUS candidate has ever rivaled the shortcomings as a POTUS candidate to the extent of DJT…). It was mass-mental malfunctioning of various kinds at various levels — and the phenomena and the outcome involved in this election will not result in anything good for the country or its people in the foreseeable future. The lessons may eventually yield some good out of the massive pain and chaos that is to come…
The dim-witted/misguided masses that voted for Trump will largely share in the pain that his next term will definitely bring.
Goeff, Goeff, Goeff, have you learned anything from our friendship? 🙂
Perhaps it is your light that is dim and misguiding you pendejo. I read that it’s a term of endearment for a nice guy. I believe is Latin. 😂
Taking your written words at face value. Of course, the masses that voted for Trump will largely share the pain. Aren’t we all in this together, you Culo. Also, Latin base. 🤣
Perhaps, the true mental malfunctioning/incompetence (psycho-social pathological phenomena) is/was that the light was dim that projected the litany you eloquently laid out on the wall for masses to digest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOwb9YsLav8
To be fair teh masses will have to see what results, if anything will be good for the country.