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Editor Josh Hammer's 2024 Election Insights and Two Major Party Impact
"America on Trial," Edmund Burke Foundation research fellow, and Internet Accountability Project senior counsel's 2024 election insights.
According to his bio from the WND News Center, "Josh Hammer is the senior editor-at-large of Newsweek, where he hosts "The Josh Hammer Show" podcast and syndicated radio show. A syndicated columnist through Creators, Josh also hosts the "America on Trial with Josh Hammer" podcast for The First. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal and cultural issues, Josh is also a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, a fellow with the Palm Beach Freedom Institute and senior counsel for the Article III Project and Internet Accountability Project." Newsweek is considered a left-of-center publication, per award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson. But Hammer doesn't seem like a leftist, if his bio and what follows are any indication.
MHProNews has an agreement with the WND News Center that permits us to reprint their articles, like the one that follows, with appropriate credit, which we of course give. Following this op-ed by Hammer there will be some additional thoughts in Part II from me, your neighbor here in Polk County, FL.
Part I
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ELECTION 2024
The death of Obamaism, and the historic MAGA opportunity
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'The Democratic Party is no longer a mainstream political organization'
By Josh Hammer | November 7, 2024
In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements of 2020. So too, in a just world, would A-list Hollywood studios now be bidding for the rights to produce the film adaptation of the single greatest comeback story in American history: Donald Trump, the once and future president.
Trump's electoral landslide this week is one for the history books. His myriad foes illegitimately spied on his 2016 campaign. They fabricated a "Russia collusion" narrative out of whole cloth, then spent years "investigating" it. They impeached him twice. They prosecuted him across four separate jurisdictions, 91 criminal counts in total. They have tried to humiliate him, bankrupt him and incarcerate him. Assassins have tried to kill him – twice.
They have failed – repeatedly and catastrophically. Trump has solidified his status as the most consequential American political figure since Ronald Reagan. He has become the first Republican presidential candidate to win the national popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004. He has scrambled America's political coalitions for a generation or more, expanding beyond his white working-class base to reach the full tapestry of modern American life.
And he has done it all despite the impassioned opposition and scorn of ruling elites from sea to shining sea. Never again will Grover Cleveland, that venerable 19th-century "Bourbon Democrat," be the sole answer to the trivia question, "Which president has served two nonconsecutive terms?" We can now add the maestro of Mar-a-Lago to the list. It is a mesmerizing, astonishing tale.
Besides being the single greatest comeback story – political or otherwise – in American history, there are at least two other crucial takeaways from Tuesday's romp.
First, it is evident that the 2008 Barack Obama Democratic Party intersectional coalition has died.
It is not that the coalition is wounded or endangered; it is that it is dead. Trump made historic inroads with Hispanic voters, Black voters, young voters and other demographic subgroups that have been vital to the Democrats since 2008. Trump won the nation's single most Hispanic county – 97% Hispanic Starr County, Texas – by 16%. Queens County, New York, famously one of the most ethnically and racially diverse counties in the country, moved over 20 points toward Trump from his 2020 performance. Overall, Trump won just under half the national Hispanic vote, and he made historic inroads with black men. Voters under the age of 35, such a core Democratic constituency in the not-so-distant past, are now a swing voting bloc.
Obamaism is dead.
This is a seismic shift in the American political landscape, and it's not clear where Democrats go from here. They can scream "Nazi!" or "fascist!" until their lungs give out, but the reality is that their policies on a host of issues – from race to gender to immigration to crime to the economy – have alienated large swaths of modern America. Democrats seem inclined to scapegoat the senile president of the United States – as if Uncle Joe is somehow to blame for not bowing out of the race weeks, or even months, sooner. This is pure cope. The problem, Democrats, is not that Biden stayed in too long. Nor is the problem, as the insufferable Sunny Hostin laughably suggested on "The View," rampant sexism or misogyny among the American electorate. The problem is that the Democratic Party is no longer a mainstream political organization.
Second, Trump, JD Vance and the broader MAGA movement are now blessed with a unique opportunity. That opportunity, as this column put it in July following Trump's selection of Vance as his running mate, is to "effectuate transformative change in American political life by scrambling arbitrary old political lines and building a durable, generational coalition of the broader center." It is imperative that Trump and – perhaps even more important – his soon-to-be allies in Congress understand this. America's cultural and civilizational divide, which was reflected in this election, is less a traditional "Right" versus "Left" ideological split than it is a more prosaic – but no less stark – divide between normalcy and sanity, on the one hand, and decadence and freakishness, on the other hand.
Republicans are about to control the White House, the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. These opportunities are infrequent, and Republicans must take advantage. Each and every day, the presidential and congressional agenda must be oriented toward prioritizing the common man who has been left behind for decades by both parties. Let the Democrats continue to navel-gaze and morally preen about their "virtue." Just enact tangible policies, from the economy to trade to immigration and everything in between, that will better the common man's lot in life.
The opportunity to refashion the Republican Party as America's majority party is ripe for the taking. And what a Hollywood ending that would be.
Part II - Additional Facts, Evidence & Analysis (FEA)
As I’ve disclosed from early on in this series, I’m a political independent. My agenda is not to destroy the Democratic Party, nor is it to enshrine the Republican Party as unchecked entities. It is my view that the so-called two-party system – by definition, a duopoly, needed reform. Ballot access for minor parties should be made easier. In this election, and in recent ones, the Democratic Party was based on the evidence by far the weaker choice.
I would agree with much, but not all of what Hammer said. It remains to be seen if "Obamaism is dead." Hammer's giving an educated guess on that, so he may be right, wrong, or somewhere in between. That said, if he was engaging in hyperbole to make a point, I get it.
That noted, this statement he made is arguably held by many: "the broader MAGA movement" is "less a traditional "Right" versus "Left" ideological split than it is a more prosaic – but no less stark – divide between normalcy and sanity, on the one hand, and decadence and freakishness, on the other hand." An example of a similar view from attorney turned award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald from the left is shown below.
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On MHLivingNews we published a report earlier this year that began with the words, Remember Normal?
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That article focused on the intersection of notions from the left and right mentioned by Hammer but covered in more detail in the above. Not that he needs it, but the evidence and details are useful to many who may not already be aware of the evidence to support Hammer's apt point.
There is already evidence that Trump meant what he said. That "Promises Made, Promises Kept" will be his mantra. ICYMI, see yesterday's post.
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Hammer wrote: "The problem is that the Democratic Party is no longer a mainstream political organization." That implies that it no longer represents the will of the mass of people who have voted Democratic for years, sometimes for decades. On our MHProNews platform, we have made that point for years and have cited sources from the left and the Democratic Party to underscore the claim. It can be debated, but the evidence is strong and the 2024 voting is in part a repudiation of the Democrat coalition that Hammer links to former President Obama. Previously lifelong Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made that point repeatedly. So too has former Democratic presidential candidate and still Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-D) just months ago.
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Leftist Senator Bernie Sanders (VT-Democratic Socialist and former Democratic Presidential Candidate) said after the election via X: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change." The working class in large numbers went with Trump and MAGA Republicans vs. Establishment Democrats or RINO (Establishment) Republicans.
Opinions are a dime a dozen. Anyone can have an opinion. Opinions may or may not be grounded in reality. Opinions may or may not be grounded in facts and evidence.
While some in mainstream media make much, much more income that this writer does, that doesn't mean that they will be better at telling you the truth. That's not bragging. Facts, evidence, and honestly sharing the best information available at the time is what the media is supposed to be about. I take the following quote very seriously. You and others should consider that the ideal that sincere journalists and media should aim for too.
For those who have followed this series on the Patch daily or many times a week, you should or have discovered in this series of articles facts, evidence and common sense that connects the dots. Two examples will help make the point.
1) Among our pre-election forecasts was videos that suggested that Trump may end up with 306 to 312 electoral college votes. Trump ended up with 312.
2) Not many forecast Trump winning the popular vote. But in this series on the Patch, yours truly did a post on exactly that possibility weeks before the election. That should beg the question: why did multi-billion dollar organizations do worse than this writer and the sources this writer shared with you?
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On the "promises made, promises kept" topic. There is already evidence of a real possibility that peace in wartorn areas could break out, perhaps even before Trump is sworn into office.
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The future is not known. But there are authentic reasons for optimism. Stay tuned as we plan to continue to share our authentic, evidence-based look at events and issues that impact Americans, including the need for more affordable housing, the need for secure borders, to bring crime under control, to revive the religious spirit of our imperfect but still great nation.
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