While the Donkey licks its wounds, and in the Republicans' honeymoon after the polls closed, a groundswell of dishonesty wallows in identity crisis instead of embracing the reality of a new majority's rules. Failed pollsters and left-wing media face the certainty of corporate layoffs but there's not much point in naming the blame. This mandate reverberates hope in a landslide of one word—Populism.
"From Argentina to Italy to France to the United Kingdom to Hungary, there are similarities. The new populism tends to be economically and politically nationalistic. It tends to be culturally patriotic and socially conservative. It tends to sympathize with workers over corporations. It is also self-consciously, defiantly—often mockingly—anti-establishment." *https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/populist-conservatism-and-constitutional-order/
There are millions of real heroes claiming victory (besides an incredible Trump on the stump and his staff). I give you GEN Z and 'Toxic Male' America making the case for majority rule. Led by voters, young and old, from different generations, a new demographic emerges and it has had enough! GEN Z is tired of the lies. From their socialist educational indoctrination, pronoun warfare, and dismantling the T in Troubled Title 9 inequality, GEN Z rejected on its face the woke agenda. Beyond a half-assed campaign, the rhetoric restrained its hopes for a brighter, cheaper, safer, truer American future.
Young women and men comprise this generation born between 1997 and 2012. GEN Z is the second-youngest generation, coming of voting age after millennials and before Generation Alpha. They joined forces in 2024 with their grandparents, uncles, and fathers in their '40s—voting males who get up everyday to support or sustain the precious family unit; voting males who got dissed by deceitful media intending to sideline their "toxic masculinity." In earnest to woo both generations, the Donkey Party hedged against fathers' and sons' conventional wisdom. It concocted more lies about Trump as a pro-Israel. white-racist to divide and conquer this uniquely undecided voting block.
The Donkey Party remained zealous by catering to 'suburban, college-educated women,' but touting abortion as their single-'must-have issue' misfired. Though the Democrats' strategy was simultaneously (thank the Obamas) bent on shaming husbands, grandfathers, uncles, and bros, many were black and white. Many lived in suburban households.
Persisting, and using sweeping generalizations, Donkey's candidate was joined at the hip by MSNBC, CNN and the New York Times' smears of Trump/Vance as toxic males. It was a risky move by unethical journalists. And in the unreasonable claims, the Leftist Media alienated women and men of all ages.
Out in flyover country, the MAGA message was already cemented to enable Trump to revisit time-and-time-again, the swing states, and it reenergized and rebranded Donald Trump as the candidate of smart choices, common sense. In the end, young Americans ultimately chose the can-do promise of a better tomorrow. GEN Z, its ancestors and their descendants locked arms with their brother-father-grandfathers to reject the candidate of identity politics.
There was also something more sinister in 2024—a vitriolic middle finger to the First Amendment—as the delusional MSM slander of Trump morphed into panic-mode by the Democrats in the media. While the surrogates infused the narrative with censorship and bias, a tired woman riding her jackass became angrier in the final move: Her mistake was wielding attack ads aimed for the jugular of two uniquely bonded generations. If only her consulting class hadn't oversampled the polling. If only the Donkey had a record to defend. If only the media was truthful at sit-down interviews. Therefore, when the Elephant was left standing in the room, GEN Z ultimately rejected the Democrats' blatantly dishonest candidate.
In a refreshing reset that some voters claim was a gift from God, comrades of all ages, skin color, religion, and ethnic origin embraced a collective conversation. That is the definition of a mandate. America was erring on the side of popular opinion because reason reigned with the Republican Party. This was the truth GEN Z yearned for. In this soulful revelation, they chose to take Donald J. Trump at his word. Again.
*Imprimis adaptation of Kevin Roberts speech October 23, 2024, Vol. 53, Number 10, Hillsdale College
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