First of all, the closeness* of the election indicates that Harris and the Democratic Party could have won if they had done things differently: *Harris: 68,097,896 votes (48.0%) / Trump: 72,754,011 votes (51.0%).
1. Fear and Loathing Voters. Most of her voters were probably fear & loathing anti-Trump voters. And a good portion (not all obviously) of his voters were fear & loathing anti-Harris voters. So basically the their fear & loathing voters were evenly matched. So why did Trump pull off the victory and she didn't? The following is an attempt to answer that question.
2. He played to the American yeasayers; she played to America's naysayers. And as it turned out there were more yeasayers than naysayers. Many American voters wanted an uplifting, exciting, and hopeful message for America. Trump's rhetoric was better at conveying that message.
3. Two MAGA mottos. Trumps: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Harris: MAKE AMERICA GO AWAY. Trump expressed confidence in Americans. Harris as a candidate said that Americans are a lost cause, and what is needed is new blood: poor, huddled masses, wretched refuse, the homeless, tempest-tossed from ramshackle nations. Don't ask what America can do for you or what you can do for America. Ask what America can do for outsiders. His message was how can America become greater, not how America can rescue the powerless, needy, and desperate.
4. She was toxic going into the race. Thus, she shouldn’t have run in the first place. That was the fault of the Democratic Party. Apparently, the party forgot that it barely beat Trump the first time around when Trump was the toxic candidate. This time the Biden-Harris team made the Democratic Party toxic as the Anti-America Party, perhaps for the first time for the Democratic Party.
5. As the child of immigrants, she was chosen to promote the New Democratic Party’s multicultural agenda (revolution?) for America. And to highlight her as Wonder Woman for immigrants, they saddled her with an invisible running masculine mate whatshisname. This decision was based on the naive assumption that a Democratic win was a slam dunk. It wasn’t. Instead of promoting an unpopular political agenda, they should have focused on defeating Trump.
6. Lack of personal appeal. Harris has an uninspiring, lackluster, boring personality. Like him or not, Trump has an engaging personality, often outrageously so. He spoke with conviction. She didn’t. He spoke from the heart (or at least appeared to) and with a fire in his belly. What she had to say seemed scripted. Trump could never stay on script, so he seemed genuine even if he was just being the salesman.
7. She was a decorative candidate for the Democratic Party—a black woman & child of immigrants. Substance and commitment, however, were lacking. She was supposed to win just because she is black, female, & child of immigrants. What was needed to beat Trump was someone like Obama or JFK or Ronald Reagan. A great communicator she is not.
8. She was committed to causes rather than to the country. She was an advocate for illegal aliens and other leftist policies (some very good; I love tree and wildlife) but often promoted them in a way that condemned nation as an evil empire. Whereas Harris came across as unAmerican, Trump came across as a defending rather than denouncing the homeland.
9. She was a toxic candidate from the very beginning. Her support for the burning of cities by Black Lives Matter and Antifa and for Biden’s open border immigrant tsunami initiative made her seem unAmerican.
10. Her chances of winning were sabotaged by President Biden. Late in his presidency Biden initiated his open border policies that allowed tens of thousands of aliens to enter the U.S. Then he assigned Harris as “border czar,” at which she failed, but the task was never hers but his. But her failure was toxic to her chances of winning the presidential election. He created a sea of trouble, gave her concrete shoes, and threw her overboard. As he abandoned her he waved his sombrero—a gift from Mexico.
11. Time to get back to completing Trump’s wall. After Biden’s open-border snafu that allowed in a tsunami of immigrants, undecided voters, even those who feared or disliked Trump’s erratic behavior, thought that perhaps Trump should be allowed to finish his wall—for our good, for America’s good. And Biden’s open-border policy and Trump’s wall sum up the differences between the two very different political campaigns: Trump’s as defender of Americans and their homeland & Biden-Harris as defenders of immigrants and promoters of a multicultural America in which traditional Americans would become just another minority.
12. Biden’s Americans = garbage snafu. That seems to have always been his opinion about Americans, that they were garbage and in comparison immigrants who are fine and noble. This arrow shot at Americans hit Harris in her Achilles heel. In defense of Puerto Ricans, President Biden suggested that Trump supporters are “garbage,” and by doing so he ignored Churchill's warning that “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” In his arrogance he ignored Churchill's warning that “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” One recalls Hillary Clinton’s calling them “deplorables,” and then she went on to lose the election. About Puerto Ricans Biden said, “they’re good, decent, honorable people.” And they are, but so are most of Trump’s supporters. The Republicans of Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Kansas, Utah, West Virginia, Idaho Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska ARE NOT garbage.
Let’s hope that during the coming four years that Trump proves himself the right choice not only for America but for the free world and the values of Western Civilization. They are worth defending. This means that when Putin said to Trump that "Moscow was ready for dialogue with the Republican president-elect," Trump must be sure that he is not taken in as Faust was by Mephistopheles. Unlike Putin, Trump won a democratic election fair and square; thus, as a politician he deserves a black belt. Putin doesn't win elections but steals them by having the other candidates assassinated; thus as a politician he deserves the yellow belt of a novice. And I doubt very much if he ever won a black belt in judo because his better opponents allowed him to win to avoid being poisoned after the match.
