“The economy is the start and end of everything. You can’t have successful education reform or any other reform if you don’t have a strong economy.” –David Cameron
Midway through election year 2024, it looked as if the mainstream, media and the Democratic Party had dug a mass grave large enough to bury the entire Trump campaign and its staff. DNC operatives, and overzealous beltway leftists with their campaign on cruise control, felt they had a candidate that was better than manna from heaven. All they had to do was hide Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz from interviews and public appearances and count their votes on Election Day 2024.
Bowing to media-elite criticism that Harris had not granted enough interviews so voters could learn about her past, Harris blitzed the media in the final days with appearances on CBS’s 60 Minutes, ABC’s The View, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on CBS, Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show, the pod-cast Call Her Daddy, and a Univision town hall with and a few subordinate independent shows.
The DNC felt that would calm media malcontents who insisted Harris hasn’t done enough personal interviews – right? No! Wrong! Politico opened the week with a widely circulated assertion that despite all of her plans, Harris “is still avoiding the media.” Politico whined: “Let’s be real: Most of these are interviews that are going to press Harris on issues she won’t talk about, even if voters wanted more specifics from Harris.” These were all show and no tell whistle-stop’s at the very best.
As Democrat David Axelrod predicted, once Harris’ radical past was exposed and not defended, it would be her Achilles Heal. As questions and comments about her Bay Area radicalism surfaced, media could no longer run cover for her no matter how powerful and influential her party was.
Republican Donald Trump won an Electoral College landslide over Vice President Harris. Media and political pundits credit Trump for reversing his political fate in his 2020 losses in the crucial states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin. Trump ran up huge margins among the white rural working-class and made large inroads among identity voters.
When quarried by a group of reporters at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, not far from Mar-a-Lago, Trump retorted, “There’s never been anything like this in this country, and maybe well beyond.” The GOP winner told a group of rapturous supporters, “We’re going to help our country heal, and it needs help badly. We’re going to fix our borders and everything wrong in America.”
World leaders from all across the globe have been calling Trump’s second White House victory the greatest political comeback in. U.S. history. Yet to have a comeback, you have to have a setback. Again Trump is be judged by higher standards than anyone else in the room. It’s the old adage: He who takes the most steps forward is bound to occasionally fall backwards.
Trump’s first presidency may be remembered for its tragic end. But his four years as president also changed real American policy in lasting ways. He had little time to bask in the light of his victories since everyday Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi brought new charges against him. But According to Politico’s best policy reporters, Trump changed America in more ways than any modern leader.
The left has never figured it out, “it s still about the economy. stupid!” Before the pandemic invaded America, working within the free market, Trump built the world’s most prosperous economy. We gained 7 million new jobs, three times government projections. Middle-class family income increased by $6,000, which is five times the gains during the Obama administration. Unemployment rates ratcheted down to 3.5%, which is the lowest recorded rate in well over half a century.
Nearly 160 million more Americans reported being employed than ever before. Jobless claims hit a near 50-year low. The number of new people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record. Incomes rose in U.S. metro areas for the first time in three decades.
Trump delivered a future of greater promise and opportunity for all U.S. citizens. Unemployment rates for veterans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian and Native Americans, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows. Women and men with disabilities, without a high school diploma, all reached first time staggering high employment rates.
Everyone beneficiated from Trump’s economy. Nearly 7 million people no longer needed food stamps. Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans reached record lows.
Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade. The bottom 50% of American households saw a 40% increase in net worth. Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue collar workers – a 16% increase. Black homeownership increased by 6%.
Trump brought jobs, factories, and industries back to the USA. He created more than 1.2 million manufacturing jobs. Trump’s policies included improving supply chains by encouraging manufacturers to reinvest in America. Small business optimism broke a 35-year old record in 2018.
When Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the largest tax reform package in U.S. history, more than 6 million American workers received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits. A typical family of four earning $75,000 received an income tax cut of more than $2,000; slashing their tax bill in half. He doubled the standard deduction, making the first $24,000 earned by a married couple tax-free. He doubled the child tax credit and virtually eliminated the death tax. He cut the business tax rate from 35% – the highest in the developed world – down to 21%.
Progressive Democrats were so busy looking for ways to discredit President Trump, they could not see the forest through the trees. If they spent more time learning about Trump’s success, like blue collar America was doing, they would not have made such a mess out of America. When their base ruptured, they begged the GOP to nominate Trump and they vaulted Trump on to victory.
If the Democrats learned anything from this election, it was that mainstream media dug its own grave with absurd Trump election coverage, which Democrats swallowed hook, line and sinker. When will the left learn?
“He who givith too freely can too freely takeith away.” – Proverbs 11:24
It’s time Democrats learned that elections belong to the people, not to the party. “I want to thank millions of Americans for showing up in record numbers and delivering a victory for America. We will do our best to pay you back. We will turn it around in every way possible. I will fight for you with every breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down. This will always be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their beloved country.” – Donald Trump
This article was originally published at www.thecentersquare.com
