Was Trump elected because people couldn't stand how radical the Democrats became with DEI, LGBT, immigration, men in girl's teams and bathrooms etc?

[Kelley1]

Or was the main reason the economy?

[uncleBobbyb77]

Trump was elected because he's the only candidate since JFK that carried through on promises to expose corruptions of powers being abused and to undo the legislations and policies that are infringing on the rights and powers of We The People. Unfortunately not everyone understands in order for the necessary changes to be made then the legislations and policies that attempt to validate and protect the harmful legislations and policies being abused must be disregarded and actions taken to counteract and prevent things from continuing as they have been so they return to being as they should.

[exitseven]

The economy and the open border were the big issues but the rest of the reasons definitely played a part. Not having a realistic candidate and not having any responses to the issues Americans care about also contributed to the sound drubbing they received

[Jersey2]

Exactly

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[WhiteSteve]

I think it’s due to so many people being wildly misinformed about the nature of pretty much all of those issues, plus a fundamental lack of understanding of civics, economics, and basically “the way shit works.”

DEI isn’t the boogeyman it’s painted to be. The biggest benefactors are white women, in reality. It’s also got nothing to do with lowering standards for hiring, that was a lie. I won’t go into a whole explanation, but the gist of it is that DEI =/= white guy should’ve gotten the job but it went to a less qualified minority group candidate of some sort, like that’s just simply not how it works.

LGBTQ issues…. what exactly is the problem here? What are you advocating FOR? FEWER rights for them? Demanding they keep themselves hidden from the public eye? Making it against the rules to acknowledge their existence so all the little kids who are wired to be LGBTQ — and are going to grow up to be LGBTQ no matter what you or anyone else does, and whether you like it or you don’t— feel weird and different all while growing up? I don’t know what to say to that other than “Are you serious? What year do you live in?”

Immigration, I wasn’t even really trippin’ about that in the first place. Granting them asylum is a noble cause I support, and I’m THRILLED for my tax dollars (CENTS out of my pocket, and yours, in reality) to go to such things.

If there’s stuff to tighten up, then tighten it up, but I’m not going to hear border security complaints from Trump or MAGA, the guy who snuffed out a perfectly acceptable bill to alleviate a lot of the problems (even if just temporarily until he got back into office if he could, if he was genuinely concerned about it…doing SOMETHING is better than leaving the situation that HE says is a national emergency as is for over a year), and he got it snuffed out for the SOLE REASON of being able to say “look at this terrible problem this administration has done NOTHING about!” That doesn’t tell me that he gives a shit about the supposed impact it has on America. It was a political football he needed desperately to keep in bounds.

But either way: over exaggerated issue, especially in terms of crime. The Laken Riley Act, with all respect to her, is the Laken Riley Act because that shit happened to Laken Riley, and barely anyone else. But to have them tell it, it’s a rampant problem, like thousands of cases, lmfao. And it just isn’t. Not from undocumented immigrants at least. Our own citizens…. that’s something else. Plenty of offenders being homegrown, exponentially more than anyone else, even per capita. Where’s the energy for that? Not as strong, and that’s weird.

Trans stuff…. I never thought I’d have to go to bat for such a small group of people so often. There’s not really a huge movement on the left FOR them, it’s just kind of “whoa, what the fuck, leave them alone, they aren’t harming anyone.”

Like I said before about the umbrella issue of LGBTQ, they’re wired to be trans no matter what you do or don’t do, and whether you like it or not. They’ve been around the whole time, they’re just now beginning to peek out because maybe they won’t get beaten to death. And I’m not so sure that’s true.

They aren’t dangerous, and they aren’t doing it to be perverts or get an edge in athletic competition, lmfao, I can’t believe that’s a serious conversation that needs to be had with adults. My mother got peeped in a bathroom stall at a mall food court when I was a kid. Just a dude in plain clothes, not a trans woman. If a pervert wants to go into a women’s bathroom, they’ll go ahead and do it, they won’t switch up their whole personal identity for it, lmao.

I noticed at Trump’s address recently, he highlighted a guest who is a woman leading some anti-trans charge who has a daughter they claim was sinisterly encouraged to accept themselves and starting living life as they’re wired to live it. No surgeries or hormone therapy…. just a counselor being like “if you feel most comfortable as a boy, do you. And if it’s not cool at home, you can at least feel safe here.” And that should be totally fucking fine. It’s not society’s issue to deal with that your love for your child is ultimately conditional and you’ll love them less or stop loving them altogether if they aren’t what you want them to be. That’s a YOU-problem.

And you know who WASN’T there? The woman’s daughter, who I would wager probably hates her mother’s guts, and rightly so. No mention of their well-being. Just as long as mom doesn’t feel disgusted and ashamed, right?🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

And regarding girl’s/women’s sports…. I don’t care if they don’t play with biological women. I think they should do an honest study and have an honest and RESPECTFUL conversation, and if it ends with “…and unfortunately, competing in this classification just isn’t feasible”, then that’s totally fine. I just don’t want it to be like “GET OUTTA HERE, YOU FREAKS!!!”, just because that’s no way to treat human beings.

But do you know how many athletes compete in the NCAA? Half a million. Know how many are trans? TEN. 1-0. The lowest possible multiple-digit number. So making this a Top 5 issue was BANANAS, like y’all practically made it up out of thin air.

Just a total non-issue that was in no way sweeping the nation, and also, not for nothing, I’ve never heard conservatives do anything but mock women’s sports and female athletes, for YEARS. The WNBA is a punchline to them, and Britney Griner dick jokes. PLEASE don’t look me in the eye and tell me all of a sudden everyone is now a steward of the integrity of female athletics. JUST LMFAO. This is just a way to attack trans people and cloak it in a reasonable position, but most of them are TERRIBLE actors, and it’s blatantly obvious what their true motivations are.

Also, when I was in high school, I remember seeing a picture in the sports section of the paper of a local high school field hockey game, and one of the players was a boy. I remember his name was “Niles”, I thought that was funny, and British sounding. Sure enough, he was English…and in England, men play field hockey. My friend played field hockey and knew of him. And the deal was he moved here sort of recently, he was a field hockey player, it’s only a girls’ sport in American high schools, but they let him play, because he played back in England. No hubbub, no protests, no one crying foul about disadvantages or safety issues. He just played and it was notable, but ultimately whatever. No one cared, and that was probably 30 years ago now.

I don’t even think about trans people, other than, “oh, ok, cool. Rock on👍” We rarely cross paths, and I’ve had zero negative interactions with them. They mind their business, I mind mine, I treat them like anyone else if we happen to interact. I can’t understand for the life of me understand why anyone else couldn’t or wouldn’t do the same, just out of being a kind and decent person.

As for the economy…. HOLY SHIT. I fucking CAN’T with people. Hearing MAGA voters, and honestly just voters in general’s apparent beliefs about how economics work, and the role government plays, WHO PAYS A TARIFF….. I am shaken to my absolute core at the…I want to say stupidity, but I’ll say ignorance instead. Just…. Jesus fucking Christ, nobody knows anything about anything, and that’s so fucking scary. And even worse, they’re SO fucking confident that they DO. Deadly combination. Just running around with some dumb shit they heard on Joe Rogan or FoxNews or some Facebook meme. Americans’ heads are FRIGHTENINGLY up their asses. And everything they don’t like, they’ve been given permission to dismiss as “fake news.” This is without question the craziest fucking thing I’ve seen in 46 years of being alive.

One of the biggest lies being told right now is that “Trump inherited a mess” with the economy. The economy was in pretty good shape on January 19th, and was still continuing to trend upward. Going back to American ignorance of how things work, Presidents can’t really just “fix” an economy, they only have so much control over only some aspects of the bogus picture. Like I don’t necessarily credit Biden with the shape it was in, it just was what it was, and what it was pretty good, relative to where we were post-Covid, and relative to the rest of the developed world’s economies. Like those are simply the facts, not debatable.

[WhiteSteve]

What Americans wrongly blamed Biden/Harris for (as did a lot of the world, many incumbents were voted out on account of “the economy”, so people elsewhere are dumb too, lmao) was retail prices. Retail prices are not “the economy”, that’s corporate greed and price gouging.

Quick story: my buddy is CEO of a pretty big food company that sells to grocery stores, etc. Kraft-Heinz might be buying the brand, they’re getting big time. He told me, direct quote: “I haven’t gotten the memo yet to lower prices, so I’m not lowering prices.”, and additionally said “People have to understand 80-85% is built-in labor costs…. and every year when I do employee reviews, the line of people NOT asking for raises is a lot shorter than the line of those who are. My costs go up every year, so so do yours.” Moral of the story: the old prices ain’t coming back, and they were never going to, unless Covid came and went in a month or two.

And remember last year, the economy was doing well, jobs reports kept coming out well above expectations, stock market soaring…. leading up to and after the election, Trump said “It’s because they know I’m coming back!” Then, everything is in the tank in under 60 days because of his PREPOSTEROUS tariffs and trade war bullshit that make ZERO economic sense, and now he wants to tell us he inherited a mess? You can’t be serious, bro. I was saying “Presidents don’t control and directly impact the economy like that”, but I’ll be damned, he managed to prove me wrong😂 He has singlehandedly submarined this shit.

And I just want to know where all the people are from like last October who sounded like they wouldn’t make it to the end of the month if “Brandon” was in office for just one more day, OH MY GOD😭😭😭 And now these same people are like “chill, give him time to fix it, he just got here, DAMN!”🤦‍♂️😂 Remember they were calling Biden the worst president of all time literally from Day One in 2021, so I’m just keeping the standards the same 😇

[WhiteSteve]

And lastly…. Democrats ain’t off the hook. Trump didn’t have that many more voters this time, it was more the Democrats didn’t get the same turnout they got for Biden. Plenty of reasons to explore for that, that’ll be for another day. But the big thing was Palestine.

A whole lot of idiots wanted to “punish” Democrats for being too centrist (which is crazy, because the right will tell you they’re radical left lunatics, lmao, they’re corporate Democrats, Kamala even moved a little right for her campaign…. the whole “Marxist” thing is ridiculous propaganda.) and too pro-Israel. I’m certainly not any fan of Netanyahu, nor did I love Biden’s reluctant alliance with him, as much as I know he wasn’t really on board with it.

But what the fuck did anybody think TRUMP was going to do? I think these people got cocky and thought “no way that Trump, exposed now as a criminal and a fraud, will EVER win, so let’s make it a nail biter and teach the Dems a lesson! But ultimately she’ll win and we’ll be fine.” Welp…. you fucked up. And now Gaza is going to either be an ethnically cleansed real estate deal, or it will touch off a greater conflict with Islamic Middle Eastern countries, namely Iran.

Complicated and multi-faceted, I could go even further about the onslaught of right wing media, and “the meme wars” and all that, but this already way too long, so that’s my assessment. Bless your soul if any of you made it this far, maybe unplug for a few hours and rest your eyes and brain after all that😂

[WhiteSteve]

Oh, and I meant to say…. the most maddening part of all of this, is if you try to explain these things to MAGA folks, they get upset and offended, and say “yOu’Re So cOnDeScEnDiNg! tHiS iS wHy I vOtEd FoR tRuMp!”

So it’s just …. Holy fucking shit, man. Holy fucking shit.

[Jersey2]

Wow, you wrote a book, with chapters. Anyway two things, first a new CNN poll shows a 29% favorable opinion of the Democrat Party. Second, in regards to DEI (I stopped reading after that so only 2 items), it works exactly as you say it doesn’t. I have won arm loads of DEI awards before it morphed into the flagrantly discriminatory process that it is today. As a hiring manager in the Fortune 500 (multiple companies) I have been explicitly told that we must hire a minority, specifically African-American is highly preferred. Only for white males, we were required to justify the selection.

And that we must have only MWBE suppliers for major programs worth tens of millions of dollars annually. It didn’t matter if the web-contracted to white firms. I have seen less qualified candidates get the job, get promoted in record time and rewarded for simply being black in particular. You haven’t lived this. Many have and know what it is all about. People have fought it but it is very hard to prove and it will cost you your job. But we know.

[Jersey2]

If they sub-contracted*

[WhiteSteve]

@Jersey2 I’ve been a hiring manager as well, not at anywhere in the Fortune 500, and in my experience, at my last job, the most you could claim was the owner telling me: “we don’t want black people; we don’t want white people; we want sp*cs fresh off the boat who will do whatever we tell them to. And when I’ve recommended Dominicans who were TOTALLY qualified for promotions, I was told “white people don’t want to deal with them”, in terms of our customers. So my thing is that racism is SUPER alive and well in America and requires us to combat it through regulation, because our citizens are low-quality people who can’t be trusted to be non-discriminatory. Even just the entire idea of what sounds and looks “professional” is discriminatory in itself, and that’s no good, we can’t have a country like that.

Also, there’s just nobody I could possibly be less concerned about in America than straight white men. I am one, and to complain about just about anything in this society is absolutely laughable. DEI-detractors also just seem to have this idea that if you AREN’T a straight white guy, then you must be inherently less qualified, that’s the part the don’t say out loud but is clear as day.

Also, the point of government is make sure society is stable. America isn’t a Fortune 500 company and should never be run as such. This isn’t a business. There are economics involved, but that doesn’t make it “business.” The point of America is not to do the most/best business and get the most money, holy fuck. If that’s where we’re at, then we’re really fucked.

Bottom line: money should never be the reason you ever do or don’t do “the right thing.” We absolutely CANNOT give money and businesses that kind of power. “Work” simply isn’t the point of being alive. We’re losing the plot if we think it is.

[Jersey2]

Here, knock yourself out. You will see in 2021 only 6% of these jobs went to whites. Now consider the discrimination of white males, then a lot of that 6% went to white females and much less even still to white males. Even your attitude says who cares about them which is discriminatory.

94% went to non-whites. That’s purely discriminatory especially to whites who just graduated. Two wrongs never make a right. If someone isn’t hiring fairly then they need to be prosecuted in a streamlined manner so it is easier to look into and do. DEI has morphed into not white people as that looks bad on our reports that we get bonuses on. It’s wrong, it is flat out wrong.

www.bloomberg.com/.../

[WhiteSteve]

@Jersey2 Fair enough, but the point is that the imbalance we’re trying to correct doesn’t exist because of inferiority of non-white applicants, it’s because white applicants get preferential treatment all the time, historically, even when they AREN’T qualified.

Beyond that, diversity in your staff (which is GOOD, not bad) is only one aspect of DEI. DEI helps veterans, new parents with maternity/paternity leave time, providing breastfeeding rooms for new mothers, ensures older people aren’t frozen out in favor of younger workers. It’s dishonest to just characterize it as a thing that victimizes white men. From where I’m standing, it seems like white men are resentful of actually having to earn their place in the professional world instead of just getting it handed to them because they look right for the part and they kissed the right asses. Shit, that’s how I’VE gotten everything I have, I’m not specially qualified, I’m just white and well-liked. I got promotions over people who were better than me, in all honesty, but they were brown and had an accent, so I won. And that’s fucked up should be regulated against, HEAVILY, if we’re insistent on a capitalist society where your very survival depends on being specifically useful and productive within such a system, when in the grand scheme of the universe, that’s no measure of person’s worth.

[Jersey2]

First, veterans are discriminated against. My black female boss who was promoted three times in three years told me explicitly not to hire a veteran “as they all have problems” meaning PTSD which is ridiculous. She did want black females though due the special disadvantages even though she was just promoted three times in three years and was way over her head. I don’t think you understand what has been happening. At your smaller company that may be an issue but to ask white men who are striving to give up their place for a truly lesser qualified candidate because some guy years before got an undeserved break does not make sense. That’s the heart of it. Fuck over this guy because that guy got a break years ago. Its not right.

[WhiteSteve]

@Jersey2 ok, but they aren’t supposed be discriminated against, that’s another thing DEI protects. Maybe it was failing to do so in your company, and that sucks and shouldn’t happen.

I guess what I’m bothered by is that you seem to equate “DEI” with “Black”, and you associate “Black” with “less qualified”, and I just think that’s inherently flawed thinking.

I also can’t stress enough that “successful business” should not be any sort of North Star for our nation and society to be following. “Business” and “money” can’t be “the point”, or at least not the ultimate, inalienable point.

[Jersey2]

First off they, white males, are indeed heavily discriminated against. It’s more than that shouldn’t happen and that sucks. It just modern full frontal and systemic discrimination. Period.

Further, I don’t equate DEI with black people. DEI teams do. They were frustrated that white women were being hired in large number along with Indians. THEY, not me, put the focus on it. That was the end result that they wanted.

And you have brought up that I associate black with less qualified. Show me in what I wrote where I say something like that. Show me.

[WhiteSteve]

@Jersey2 Are you saying the veterans are exclusively white males? I’m a little unclear on that part.

You just seem inordinately concerned with protecting the demographic that needs the least amount of protection, and seem to have an attitude that it’s their rightful place in the white collar work force that’s being taken from them, and I guess I just disagree with the presumption of qualification and sense of entitlement.

A huge problem is that you guys live in this gray area you feel protected in of “you can’t PROVE what my silent motivations are, so you can’t convict me”, and you thumb your noses at everyone. You know what you CAN’T say out loud, and a huge portion of your side’s politics movement, platforms, and talking points seem to revolve around generating reasonable-sounding cover to camouflage the REAL reasons you oppose the things you oppose, since those can’t be publicly admitted to in decent society.

You said you didn’t read my whole thing, but in it, I covered this very concept with the trans women in sports issue. You guys know good and goddamn well you don’t give a flying fuck about the integrity of women’s athletics, but you PRETEND TO, because it’s a defensible position. But we all know you really just want to go “EW! Chicks with dicks, fuckin’ GROSS!” You can’t, so you don’t, and you pretend to be passionate about women’s swimming or softball or some shit, and then you seem less ghoulish. Unfortunately, you’re poor actors🤷‍♂️

[Jersey2]

You seem mad dude. Anyway, you aren’t a white guy but why pretend to be one?

[Avicenna]

@Jersey2: He's a typical leftist...

[WhiteSteve]

@Jersey2 So in other words, I hit the bullseye 🎯

[Jersey2]

No, you just talk to yourself on here mainly. I hit a bullseye in that you aren’t a white guy. I guess you feel it gives you some credibility when talking about your “experiences”. Either way you are wrong and the country isn’t buying it anymore. It is refreshing to see so many companies abandon this failed, racist policy. People just need to do what is right but not look past hundreds of better qualified candidates as they systemically do at the FAA skipping past hundreds of better candidates to get to where the ones that cheated by getting the test answers from someone but select them because…. ta-da, they’re black. People will die because of that one. People are suing black doctors at the highest rate of all races for malpractice. They were pushed through medical school and now are causing harm in many cases. Obama took down those statistics in 2014 as they showed the problem. Engineer, medical, technology… these jobs all require accuracy so the problem shows much brighter here.

[WhiteSteve]

@Jersey2 Lmfao, you don’t believe I’m white? That’s something else, man😂😂😂 Is empathy that foreign to you that you can’t possibly imagine someone would maybe stand up for others, even to my own possible detriment?

“The country isn’t buying it anymore”….. bro, Americans are fucking muppets, lmao. Something being what “a lot of people” or “most people” think is correct IN NO WAY validates it as such. I think “most people” in Germany were down with the Third Reich back in the day. That’s maybe my biggest critique of democracy. “Most people” are really fucking stupid, and at best, are just really uninformed/misinformed and aren’t paying much attention to much else besides their own lives and whatever is on Netflix. So relying on people like that to make wildly important decisions like choosing leadership is FUCKED. I’m all for giving everyone a voice, but “everyone” isn’t holding up their end of the deal by staying tuned in and being knowledgeable about current events and having a fundamental grasp on the way government and the economy function. But everyone would rather play Call Of Duty and watch football and scroll Tik Tok, so I’ve just kind of thrown my hands up with people.

And once again, you’re hyper focused on Black and White in your arguments. Like you seem REEEAAAALLLLLYYYYY convinced that only white people, and maybe secondarily some other race or ethnicity you perceive as docile and non-threatening, could ever possibly be good at what you deem to be “important” jobs. And it seems to be very specifically Black people who you’re asserting are getting jobs they shouldn’t.

I mean…. you're kind of making my point for me. A hiring manager at a big company has a clear bias for White people in any kind of “big brain job”, and specifically finds Black people, and no one else, to be unworthy applicants who can only succeed if they’re the benefactors of DEI programs?

That’s very troubling, and evidence as to why DEI programs are an unfortunate necessity.

[Jersey2]

You aren’t white. You don’t speak as a white man would and It isn’t the positions you are taking, it is the low IQ way of stating it coupled with syntax. What makes it funny is that you think others are dumb and you are smart… you know, like the Democrat leaders told you you were 😂. Here I am, rich AF having worked in the F500 for my whole career and you who… well, didn’t. Have a nice day clown 🤡

[WhiteSteve]

@Jersey2 look at my picture, bud. Are you blind? I also have a million dollar view of the ocean, so I’m doing just fine for myself. Happy to provide pics of both if it matters that much to you, but I’m pretty sure it was you who I tried to provide a link to and you said you don’t do links on here, so I don’t know what to tell you in that case. But are we going to have a rich-off here? Grow up, it’s embarrassing and unbecoming of someone with such a supposedly impressive job to be this juvenile.

And once again, you’re telling on yourself. You don’t believe I’m white, fine…. but your reasoning is my syntax and that I sound low IQ…. which is presumably a not-white trait? Your implication, not mine. If you’re racist, just say that, bro.

And I got a 780 out of 800 on my SAT verbal, I can write you something formal if you like. I just have a conversational, stream-of-consciousness style when I write online. I’ll do better on my term paper, Professor, I promise. Take off the tweed jacket with the suede elbow patches🙄

[Jersey2]

We all have million dollars trying to views then, although I don’t understand how you got yours. But you remember that black people were systemically discriminated against and now it is young white males… and black people have huge privilege in getting jobs and promotions. It has switched and you are just screwing white guys because black guys used to get screwed. It’s asinine.

[WhiteSteve]

@Jersey2 Well, hopefully you’re sitting down for this, but you can still make good money even if you don’t work for a Fortune 500 company🤯

I must be looking at different C-suites than you are, because the ones I know of are whiter than Tucker Carlson in a snowstorm. You’re aware that white men still very much run America, no?

Y’all were cool with Amy Coney-Barrett when she was giving Trump legal immunity for past crimes he might be on the hook for, but when she sided against him on that other shit a couple weeks back, then right wingers started calling her a DEI hire, lmfao. I strongly oppose a lot of her positions, but I’d never argue she’s unqualified, she’s very educated and accomplished, I just think she has warped values that lead her to poor rulings. The knowledge is there, I find flaw with the interpretations. And guess what they’ll call Clarence Thomas if HE steps out of line (probably not, he’s in the cult)? He’d be LUCKY to just get “DEI hire.”

Honestly, just own the racism, man. It looks worse to look U. S. in the eye and pretend “I’m not racist, I’m just being logical”, it’s not fooling anyone, so let’s spare all parties involved. You’re coming REAL close here, but you won’t quite take ownership of it and say all the quiet parts out loud. I think you can do it, though, man, I believe in you💪

[combative]

You don't even live in the two party system (uni-party) anymore. The fact that you think you do, shows you are still brainwashed. The Democrat party has been shattered and MAGA has been primarying RINOs. The party in power isn't part of the 2 party system fighting over fake issues on the nightly fake news and things aren't going back in that direction. You had a Marxist coup against We The People of the United States of America and the people said enough of that bullshit, this is America.

[Miristheiss]

Because we've had a foreign invasion for the last 4 years... with MILLIONS of foreigners just helping themselves to our country and dem leaders buying them hotel rooms, funding them with money and fucking over actual citizens.

Some of you fools don't understand national sovereignty. Immigration can only work if it is in LITTLE DOSES. You cannot just open the flood gates. That literally destroys your country. Fucking traitors would support that. You have to keep the numbers of immigrants moving in at small numbers.

[Cormac995]

Yes, it was a winning issue for him. He got a tone of votes going after those things. Those things alone didn't win him the election but a lot of people heard that and said, "Thank god someone is going to shut the insufferable whiners up." Now we're all fucked.

[lightbulb27]

The left did and were awful and the candidates had no vision.

Addressing the wars... maybe

addressing the budget issues... maybe

The cost of/inflation was a reuse to get elected with hope of lowing energy costs to lower prices.

The craziness of the left including gender crapola, DEI crapola, sex changes for children, free sex changes for migrants, etc..

[ProbablyClueless]

It was a mix of everything. But I would say the main thing is that they were sick of being their lives have to suck.

People were sick of being blatantly lied to. They were sick of being stolen from. They were sick of seeing their children fail academically. They were sick of illegal immigrants coming in. They were sick of gender identity. They were sick of men competing in women's sports. They were sick of being forced to work shit jobs. The list goes on and on.

[Shiprex]

I think it's a reaction to all these things and the fact that things just seem to be getting MORE stressful and expensive in general. That the extreme wealth inequalities around the world are only getting more and that everyman is being left behind.

[Menace69]

At that time it wasn’t about how good trump is for presidential candidacy, but the matter of choosing lesser evil of the two. It was an utter farce with all that buffoonery further proving democrats’ incompetence. Only now the whole chicanery is of a different kind. (Doomed either way)

[Cyrus000]

Mostly all the wokeism, Anti Male rhetoric, anti religious rhetoric etc. The majority of people who had an effective change in the results were young men. Young men across the West are heavily tilting to the right now. More are going to join the ranks soon.

[adventurous-1]

he sold us a bill of goods, now we get excuses why he didn't deliver. like price of eggs, groceries, gas. Plus he flat out lied about protecting social security and programs for the poor and health care. But look at the money he's saving unless you count the money he's spending on his political agenda. Actions have always spoken louder than words.

[Joshydavid25]

A good mix of both honestly.. People were tired of the all the far left nonsense (even some people on the left), and they're horrible economics policies.. They've gone too far into Marxism and a lot of people are starting to see it..

[sawno]

Economy was a bigger reason, DEI it was in part for the culture war crowd, part of it was incompetence of the former administration and I am sure many other factors. Voting is complex.

[David318578]

Yeah that probably a good part of it. But Dems hated Harris as well, think she was less then 1% in the primaries. Combine the fact that Dems already didn't like her, the economy was pretty bad under Biden/Harris and the insanity with DEI and eroding women's rights in favor of Trans rights cost them a lot of votes

[RedThread]

Millions of voters didn't vote for Kamala like they did for Biden. I think voters hated that Democrats always put forward losing strategies like pretending to be as moderate as possible leading up to elections. Leftist/liberal voters don't want Republican-lite or diet Republican, they want actual leftist economic populism. That's why Bernie Sanders was so popular before the Democratic party sidelined him.

[Paige90]

I think it was all of that plus they were sick at how democrats obviously weaponized the justice system to try and prosecute him

[Pohjolan]

Inflation? Trump has been pretty open about intending to implement policies that would increase inflation.

Less available workforce, more expensive imported raw materials, more expensive imported goods and less exports all will contribute to more inflation.

[RedInnocent69]

A combination of both but mainly an irrational response to the economy. It doesn’t matter unemployment is low or the stock market’s doing well when you get pissed off by inflation every week at the grocery store

[Bklynbadboy12]

Yes that's exactly why he was elected. Minorities was getting a little to much power. They don't want to make America great again the want to make America white again. It's sad cause every race in America are transplant from other countries except the Indians. They are trying to take away what makes America so strong. We're great cause we had the best from every country. We're good separately but as human beings we're great together

[WhiteBoyChill]

Combination of both.

But lmao to the Dems worried about abortion.

It always seems to be the ugliest and most repulsive women that are most worried about abortion anyway for some reason.

[Sunrising]

I don't care who is in power, the Republicans or the Democrats, providing they bring prosperity to the USA, Peace in the World, and bring America to the forefront of World thinking on Bodily Autonomy.

[NaultD]

My guess is wanting a white ethostate suffering everyday and every way possible just so someone anyone else was worse off.

[shortster]

I only voted for Trump in 2024 and only because they tried to kill him. I was planning on voting for RFK before the assassination attempts.

[masterSir]

That was half of it. The other half was we were better off under his first term than under biden.

[seeyounexttuesday]

All of it. The economy, the selling out of America, the woke craziness.

[OddBeMe]

Yes and now you rue the day as a recession is upon us,

[Filthy_Immigrant]

not really but its what helped him get elected. we were also tired of democrats fucking our economy and putting the whole world before America

[beefcakebradybatson]

Trump was elected because plenty of fugly, bigoted white folk wanted someone to validate their abhorrent beliefs.

[GAGsucksballs89170]

trump was elected because he conned the country

[chrissykerdock]

part of the reason

[abc3643]

All of the above.

[HungTexan]

All of the above I think.

[Agape93]

It was the economy. They fell for it. Again

[Dargil]

Nope, he want.

[jahaims]

Trump was elected because he got the most votes

[Pterodon]

Yeah pretty much