Trump brought together white, black, Asian and Hispanic voters
After years of relentless attacks by the media for supposed racism, xenophobia, homophobia and sexism, the support for Trump again has belied the assault, writes Piers Akerman.
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The Donald may have gone, if that is how the courts decide the votes must fall, but his supporters aren’t going to lose.
After years of rapid decline caused by wilful neglect and a concerted Green-Left march through the institutions, President Trump offered the West its best, if not its only, hope of recovery from a headlong slide into mediocrity and subservience.
If, ultimately, Sleepy Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris occupy the White House the deterioration will accelerate.
But because the great blue wave promised by the Democrats and almost every pundit, didn’t happen, the Republicans look like maintaining control of the Senate and gaining seats in Congress. Biden, President Obama’s inconsequential Veep for eight years, had the edge among the chattering classes but he didn’t win the hearts of the nation.
It wasn’t only the white blue collar voters who supported Trump, either.
Biden and Harris, who was chosen as his running mate by the Left wing of the Democratic Party primarily because of her colour, failed to enthuse the minority groups the Democrats have long claimed to champion.
It is therefore more than ironic that Hispanics and so-called “people of colour” as well as the alphabetical gender-identity confused LGBT actually turned out in greater numbers for Trump in this election than they did in 2016. That is according to reports from both CNN and the New York Times based on exit polls, which given the continued failure of major polling organisations and almost every political commentator, I would urge readers to treat with the same caution they should exercise when confronted with modelling by health experts.
Not surprisingly those who most recently suffered under brutal dictatorships also voted for Trump because their experiences in places like Cuba, where Leftists flock for vacations beside the prison walls behind which political prisoners are incarcerated, taught them that freedom is to be cherished not mocked.
That voters turned out in increased numbers for Trump shocked the liberal commentariat, perhaps best personified by the New York Times’ Charles M. Blow.
After years of relentless attacks by the media for supposed racism, xenophobia, homophobia and sexism, the support for Trump belied the media assault.
Blow wrote: “A larger percentage of every racial minority voted for Trump this year than in 2016. Among Blacks and Hispanics, this percentage grew among both men and women …
“Black women vote more reliably Democratic than Black men — only 3 or 4 per cent of Black women voted for the Republican candidate in 2008, 2012 and 2016. However, Donald Trump doubled that number this year, winning 8 per cent of Black women’s votes.
“Black men on the other hand have been inching away from the Democrats in recent elections, and continued that drift in this election. In 2008, 5 per cent of Black men voted for John McCain; in 2012, 11 per cent voted for Mitt Romney; in 2016, 13 per cent voted for Trump; and, this year 18 per cent voted for Trump.”
Blow also tweeted: “This is so personally devastating to me: the Black male vote for Trump INCREASED from 13 per cent in 2016 to 18 per cent this year. The Black female vote for Trump doubled from 4 per cent in 2016 to 8 per cent this year,” Blow tweeted. “Also, once again, exit polls show a majority of White women voting for Trump. This one pushed me back on my heels: the percentage of LGBT people voting for Trump doubled from 2016, moving from 14 per cent to 28 perc cent. In Georgia the number was 33 per cent.”
For CNN analyst Brandon Tensley, it was evidence that White nationalism was central to the Trump administration and that it was “shameful” that Black people had turned out in record numbers to vote for him.
Perhaps these commentators should have acknowledged that under Trump, African-American unemployment reached the lowest rate ever recorded, that Hispanic-American unemployment was at the lowest rate ever recorded, that Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded and that women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
Trump has been the only world leader to push back against China and he has done more for Middle East peace than any other world leader. Unfortunately, he didn’t keep his promise to drain the swamp and the swamp may finally have swallowed him.
