Donald Trump becomes the 47th US President. The Republican clearly won the US election. Not only did he win a landslide in swing states, he also won the most votes across America. Trump’s triumph is much clearer than all pollsters and experts would have thought possible on Tuesday evening. With his unique instinct, Trump has once again recognized what concerns a majority of US citizens.
That life is too expensive. That too many people are coming into the country uncontrolled. That there are too many wars on whose course and whose drivers the strong America, unlike in times past, has no influence. That the Democrats are wasting billions of taxpayers’ money on green technologies instead of using the USA’s resources through fracking and oil drilling.
Trump also recognized that – as in 2016 – he wins voters through fearmongering. Fear of the state, which supposedly indoctrinates children with “woke ideals”. Fear of the Democrats, in whose world only minorities would have say. In which the traditional family no longer has a place and unborn life has no value. That crime is out of control because of the influx of illegal immigrants.
Millions of Americans actually experience many of these things in everyday life. They perceive other things through Trump-affiliated television channels and social media. Ultimately it doesn’t matter.
What matters is that they remember life during Trump’s term as better than the past four years with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Nobody needs to doubt that she was a weak candidate anymore. The numbers speak for themselves.
Harris lost this election, but most importantly, Trump won this election. Because he went one better instead of backtracking. So many times Harris tried to turn Trump’s racist, sexist or otherwise crass comments to her advantage. She tried to present Trump as the biggest risk to the nation. Because he is committing treason against democracy and the constitution and, above all, against America’s women.
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From a democratic perspective, not enough of this has penetrated the voters. Trump has won, Trump 2.0 begins. Or as he himself said to his cheering supporters in Florida on Wednesday morning at half past two a.m. local time: “The Golden Age of America is beginning.” 47 percent of US citizens will see this completely differently this Wednesday. From a politics of fear he must now shape a politics of unity.
