Once again, with this election of Donald Trumpas in 2016 for its first election or as in other elections where the populism factor was at play, the results surprised everyone in Washington.
So, remember, we were expecting a close election, it was going to take days to know the results. And then finally, yesterday… Shortly after the polling stations closed, the results were already clearly visible. Therefore, it is not difficult to find a thousand examples of people who were wrong the day before yesterday, castigated pollsters, forecasters and other analysts of all kinds who, once again, did not see Donald Trump coming . In any case, who immediately felt a passion for Kamala Harris, a passion which was reflected in a striking manner almost everywhere, except at the polls.
But what is significant is that a part of the elite did not see Donald Trump's victory coming. And you know what the elite is? These are the ones who did not see Donald Trump's victory coming. There is no more circular reasoning than that, because if the elite did not see Trump's victory coming, it is because they do not understand the people, they are cut off from the people, and that's why it's elite.
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And since this reasoning is circular, I can even tell it to you backwards. The elite did not see what they could not see, because they do not know the people, but also what they did not want to see, because they prefer their opinions, their wishes to the people. Even more, by not being able to see what they did not want to see, the elite hid the truth from the people, they described to them as impossible what was going to happen.
And this is where the anti-elitist discourse becomes practically dystopian, as if the elite had tried to steal their victory from the people, preventing the people from being the people, in other words from voting the way they wanted. This is what this elite project was. How could the elite prevent the people from voting like the people? This is one of his spells, being able to prevent the people from being themselves, as if suddenly the false predictions of the elite, self-diabolical prophecies, transformed the people into the elite.
