"In 2024, Trump built the very thing the Democratic Party once tried to build — a multiracial, working-class majority"
New York Times: 6th November 2024: New York Times' columnist, Damon Winter, gives his take on why Trump prevailed over the Democrat elites
"We have entered a new political era. For the past 40 years or so, we lived in the information age. Those of us in the educated class decided... that the postindustrial economy would be built by people like ourselves, so we tailored social policies to meet our needs...
Our education policy pushed people toward the course we followed... Geography was deemed unimportant... Immigration policies gave highly educated people access to low-wage labor while less-skilled workers faced new competition.... We shifted toward green technologies favored by people who work in pixels... and we disfavored people in manufacturing and transportation...
That great sucking sound you heard was the redistribution of respect. People who climbed the academic ladder were feted with accolades, while those who didn’t were rendered invisible...Society worked as a vast segregation system, elevating the academically gifted above everybody else. Before long, the diploma divide became the most important chasm in American life...
...The chasm led to a loss of faith, a loss of trust, a sense of betrayal... The Democratic Party has one job: to combat inequality. Here was a great chasm of inequality right before their noses and somehow many Democrats didn’t see it... Many on the left focused on racial inequality, gender inequality and L.G.B.T.Q. inequality...
...As the left veered toward identitarian performance art, Donald Trump jumped into the class war with both feet... in 2024, he built the very thing the Democratic Party once tried to build — a multiracial, working-class majority. His support surged among Black and Hispanic workers. He recorded astonishing gains in places like New Jersey, the Bronx, Chicago, Dallas and Houston...
...There will be some on the left who will say Trump won because of the inherent racism, sexism and authoritarianism of the American people. Apparently, those people love losing and want to do it again and again and again..."