It has been some years since I wrote about Donald Trump or American politics in general. I first started this blog in late 2015 when the events that culminated in the 2016 election of Donald Trump were unfolding. A lot has happened since then and after Trump’s somewhat disappointing first term and the blatant fraud committed during the 2020 election, I had lost interest what had become much more literal political theatre. I still followed more or less what was happening but expected the rug to be pulled again though still confident he would handily win a fair election. Despite all this, he has won and won very convincingly with Arizona and Nevada now turning red and giving him a total of 312 Electoral College votes as well as the popular vote.
The last time I can find that I wrote directly about Trump was back in 2020 when I conceded my predictions of a Trumpslide were mistaken. This was a follow-up to a previous post where I claimed Trump would even win Illinois and also claimed only widespread fraud would prevent this. The takeaway I made was that my own analysis of the results (assuming they were legitimate), was actually closer to reality than many political pundits. Trump won Florida and Ohio, the states that were previously considered “key” to win. This plays out for elections since 1996 and could apply earlier if I went and checked. Things change though. Nonetheless, the results of the 2024 election only make the fraud of 2020 all the more obvious.
This helpful graph from Zero Hedge gives a very clear picture of this:
Even ignoring the election night shenanigans, the idea that a mediocrity like Biden received the highest amount of votes in United States history is absurd. These voters either didn’t show up for 2024 or never existed in the first place. The latter is far more likely. Trump also won the state where the strangest election night behaviour occurred though Arizona and Nevada still somehow took longer to count their relatively small amount of votes than places like California, Texas and New York. Georgia. Pennsylvania and Michigan also all went to Trump. The above graph shows the abnormal going back to normal to which the American people owe thanks to a number of largely unknown observers keeping things above board and not boarded up. It also seems some of the less insane powers that be decided that it wasn’t a good idea to attempt such blatant electoral fraud twice — especially without the cover of a manufactured pandemic and racial riots.
Now, I am well-aware that my claim of electoral fraud in 2020 is not shared by “respectable” people but these “respectable” people also once again got everything wrong. They didn’t even get their predictions right in 2020 with blatant cheating engineering the election in their favour. I’m confident that a nobody like me writing on a blog will be vindicated by history though not by name. I’d go further and claim that Trump likely only lost the popular vote in 2016 due to fraud in Democratic strongholds which I’m sure still happened this time around too. Naturally, there are once again calls to end the Electoral College and so end the remaining representation the more productive regions of the United States have over the direction of their country as a whole.
On to Trump himself, I can’t say I am as excited and optimistic as I was about him in 2016 but I am still certainly happy he won. It doesn’t seem like that long ago but an awful lot has changed since the events of 2016. My young children are much older, I’ve moved back to my home nation and even changed jobs a couple of times. Two of my observations after the 2016 victory that Trump wasn’t as right-wing as we wanted to believe and that the Left would get more ruthless as a result were certainly proved true. The Left has really gone mask-off to the point that I would have found hard to believe even in 2016. Trump has also moderated the rhetoric that got him elected.
It was amusing to see the a repeat of all the wailing and gnashing of teeth. It was delightful to see the Prime Minister of Australia grovelingly walk back the comments he’d made about Trump. The former Prime Minister and current US Ambassador Keven Rudd also had to do exactly the same. How spineless our leaders are when their convictions conflict with their power. The new memes and flashbacks to memes of old have also been fun. These moments are fleeting but they were a heartening reminder of the joy of 2016.
I’m not going to make any predictions but like others have mentioned, I hope he makes better choices for who he puts in positions of power in his administration. His overtures to detractors like John Bolton and Nimarata Haley were met with spit in the face and even the last actions of his treacherous former Vice President should have him watching J.D. Vance carefully. I also hope he actually goes all the way and flushes away all current federal employees which is not without precedent in almost any nation after power changes hands. As for other nations, I hope he goes some way to removing the tentacles the United States has wrapped around other nations and certainly that he works to end the conflicts in places like the Ukraine and Palestine. Other than things like the above, there isn’t a whole lot he can do. The United States was bad enough when he was originally elected and it is much worse eight years later. One man can’t possibly solve that no matter how driven. As always, it is up to us to look after our own spheres and trust in God.
The final area I want to bring up is the shift seen by some prominent elites like Elon Musk in particular. His support was somewhat of a surprise and there were a number of others in the background like Peter Thiel. Though these two (and others not mentioned), may be far less insane than many of the other elites, they are still hardly models of virtue. They shouldn’t be thought of as “the good guys”. I think a significant portion of the more influential elites (seen and unseen), have decided they need to tone the insanity of recent history down and a more filtered version of Donald Trump would be the ideal way of going about that. This would certainly be an improvement but it is not enough and it will at best just drag out things that have already been dragged out far too long. The moral degeneracy, social decay, failing infrastructure and insurmountable national debt isn’t going to just stop being a problem with four more years of Donald Trump.
Nonetheless, we have four more years for better or for worse and I’m happy about that.