After the US elections, Trumpism is hardly dead

In the roughest In the 120-year mobilization elections in the United States, Donald Trump is defeated at the finish line. The small margins that were on Trump’s side four years ago are now on Joe Biden’s side. However, the numbers show that the Trump movement is growing rapidly. While Trump received 62,984,828 votes in 2016, as of this writing, he has received 70,291,354 votes in 2020 – that’s more than seven million more votes than four years ago. It shows that Trumpism is alive and well. And he’s unlikely to die, even if Trump lost this year’s election thriller. Among other things, because Trump appears to be considering running for office in four years, though he ultimately lost now.

Underlying figures of this choice are interesting. Polls on Election Day show that Trump’s outcome in this election is better for all major ethnic groups, and for both genders, than it was four years ago, except for white men. Even in states and constituencies with high corona mortality, Trump has done better this year than four years ago. Thus, Trump’s appeal has grown in all directions except, paradoxically, among the original core voters, white men.

That means many white men are as angry as four years ago. It is the same rusty belt that gave Trump victory by a narrow margin in 2016, which now gives Biden a narrow victory in 2020. But the white working class and lower middle class in these states, which made Trump He won four years ago, he hardly changed much. These voters feel just as ignored, feel just as ignored by immigrants and “abroad” in a globalized economy now as they did then. They are equally outmatched by cheap labor, whether at home or abroad.

And they yearn so much for someone who communicates with them and makes them feel like he speaks for them. It’s probably just the fact that Biden is more edible to these voters than Hillary Clinton four years ago, which means that Biden is now narrowly winning these states. We are talking about people in Norway who have earned faces through Thomas Seltzer’s excellent UXA reports on NRK.

Donald Trump er certainly a very effective charismatic leader. It shows the great mobilization, with massive demonstrations with many tens of thousands of listeners in the midst of the corona epidemic. But what will Trump be like without the most important platform in the world? How will trumpeters mock a leader without an office?

Voters in the The old industrial states in the rust belt will remain the same as they were when they gave Trump victory in 2016, and near victory in 2020. Neither they nor the misery in which they live will immediately disappear. The dissatisfaction with life and the declassification they have experienced following the near collapse of the world economy in 2008 is also not a shock from which this part of the United States has not recovered.

So it still is Virgin land for Trump, even though he no longer wants the world’s most important rostrum. And sources close to the president say they believe he has no plans to retire as a politician if he loses. Sources say that he will then try to be the Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential election. If Trump plans a comeback, accusations of a “stolen election” will be cultivated as the “alternative facts” in Trump’s universe of lies and delusions.

This year’s figures The elections show that the United States is far from being cured of the conditions that made the Trump phenomenon possible. Although Joe Biden gets four million more votes than Trump, the myth lives on that climate change is not man-made and that America has “clean coal,” as Trump puts it. The racism Trump is toying with continues to mobilize voters, and the many obvious lies he serves 24 hours a day have not deterred more than 70 million Americans from voting for him. The truth is that despite all this, Trump has expanded his voter base.

The situation is dangerous

Or because of. If Trump really wants to continue leading his movement, even after an electoral defeat, then there is reason to believe that the mind and hatred that Trump has cultivated as president will be even stronger. And the lies run the risk of getting even wilder. In the role of bitter loser, he will fuel the fire of frustration among large groups of voters in the cultural civil war already raging in the United States.

Trumpism is not dead. It thrives on a declassified working class and a lower middle class. And it thrives on the Trump phenomenon, which will likely only broaden his alternate universe in what will likely be a life of furious opposition.