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In what has been described as the greatest comeback in political history, Donald Trump has survived two assassination attempts to become the 47th president of the United States, and the first to win non-consecutive terms in over a century.

Trump’s victory on Tuesday was resounding. He won every battleground state comfortably, picked up 312 electoral college votes (far more than the 270 needed to win), and became the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years.

The gains didn’t end there. Thanks to Trump, the GOP won the majority of state Governor races, took back the Senate, will likely keep the House, and will almost certainly command a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for decades to come.

Notably, it was not just the maligned “clingers” or “deplorables” from redneck counties that carried Trump to victory. Trump won majority support from white men, white women and latino men. Just under 40% of latina women voted for Trump, along with almost 25% of black men. He also made significant gains among young voters.

As observers from afar, many Australians will be mystified at these results. How can a “demagogue” and “convicted felon” be so overwhelmingly popular with Americans that he didn’t just secure re-election, but a political clean sweep?

Here are ten reasons Trump won that you probably won’t read about in the media.

1. The Economy

Australians are suffering under a prolonged cost-of-living crisis, but Americans have been harder hit — whether on groceries, fuel and house price hikes, or government debt and inflation.

I say this having experienced it firsthand. My wife and I lived in America for six months when Trump was president, and later, for another year when Biden was in office. The dramatic spike in living costs between our two stints in the US was breathtaking.

Americans remember the Trump years being far more affordable, and they voted with their pocketbooks. The famous political slogan lives on: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

2. The Open Border

I applied for my green card while I was in the United States — a process that cost us thousands of dollars and took a long time to process. At the same time, some 10 million unvetted immigrants were marching across the southern border under the watch of the Biden-Harris administration and now live in America illegally. For perspective, that’s the entire population of Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia combined.

While some Americans were supportive of an open border on the basis of compassion or cheap labour, many found it deeply unjust. American blue-collar workers — of all races — who struggled with unemployment or years of stagnant wages were muscled out of a labour market flooded with foreign nationals who were flagrantly violating the law. They voted for change.

Additionally, a not insignificant number of young American women were sexually abused and murdered by illegal immigrants during the Biden-Harris years, reviving Trump’s once-hated border wall as the more compassionate and commonsense answer.

🇺🇸More footage from the border in Arizona!

Border Patrol agents tell a group of roughly 300 migrants to start walking to the first camp as transport is hard to get out to this spot at the wall in Lukeville.#Lukeville #BorderCrisis #BorderPatrol #USA #BidenBorderInvasion… pic.twitter.com/sO5l6M0UPY

— Attentive Media (@AttentiveCEE) December 22, 2023

3. Weaponised Justice

One strange line of attack used against Donald Trump during the campaign was that, if elected, he would weaponise the US justice system and go after his political opponents. It was strange for two reasons.

First, Trump was already president for a full term and didn’t abuse his power in such a way during those years. As one particularly high-profile example, though his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton was found to have mishandled classified information while serving as Secretary of State, Trump chose not to have his Department of Justice prosecute her, knowing such a move would be “very divisive for the country”.

The second reason this line of attack was strange is that the Biden-Harris administration had already weaponised the justice system to go after their political opponents. By and large, the Australian legacy media was never honest about this fact. Consider just a handful of examples:

• Nine pro-life activists were charged or imprisoned for protesting at abortion mills
• Over 1,200 people were charged with federal crimes for their involvement in the January 6 protests, many of whom merely wandered around the Capitol Building in the friendly company of police officers
• The FBI raided Trump’s house for alleged mishandling of documents — an unprecedented tactic against a former president
• Trump allies Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro and Rudy Giuiliani, among many others, faced severe and unequal legal treatment for their roles in challenging the results of the 2020 election
• Donald Trump was impeached twice by the House, in both cases along unprecedentedly partisan lines
• Trump faced four legal indictments, most of them based on spurious grounds or novel legal theories, all of them brought for nakedly political reasons, each timed strategically to interrupt his campaign for re-election, and together carrying a maximum prison sentence of over 700 years.

In short, the Democrats were guilty of all they claimed Trump would do — and many Americans saw through the double standards and dishonesty.

4. Censorship

Unlike Australia, the US is governed by a constitution that guarantees the right to free speech. This liberty has profoundly shaped the culture of America.

Even so, conservative Americans have noticed a rising tide of censorship over the last decade. It began with isolated stories of social media bans which people initially shrugged off as errors or coincidences. Soon it became clear the censorship was intentional — a concerted effort by Big Tech staffers in Silicon Valley to artificially promote their own progressive worldview.

But as Congress began to investigate the matter, and especially when Elon Musk purchased Twitter and released the Twitter Files, the facts were finally laid bare: Americans were being censored by their own government in clear violation of the First Amendment.

The most alarming case of censorship was when Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and a host of other social media platforms acted in unison to lock sitting US President Donald Trump out of his accounts. So chilling was this event that it launched a parallel social media economy, as Trump and others created new platforms that vowed not to silence conservatives.

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and his rebranding it as X turned out to be a crucial move in the re-election of Donald Trump. X was the only news platform that allowed open criticism of the Kamala Harris campaign, and the only one to accurately predict this week’s election result. In short, Australians who are active on X were not taken by surprise by Tuesday’s result.

While the censorship regime that has overtaken US government agencies will take time to dismantle, that project is now possible with Trump back in the White House and the GOP in control of Capitol Hill. There is no doubt that millions of Americans voted for Trump with this very goal in mind.

.@ShellenbergerMD on Twitter Files Part 7 showing FBI pressure for censorship: "More work needs to be done but this looks like a kind of psychological operation that you would see the CIA conducting in foreign countries." pic.twitter.com/00tftp1zei

— American Firebrand (@AmFirebrand) December 20, 2022

5. Abortion

Many pundits noted that abortion was the one issue that seemed to genuinely ignite Kamala Harris’s passion on the campaign trail. This should come as no surprise. As I have documented elsewhere:

While Attorney General of California, Harris famously persecuted pro-life Christian journalist David Deleiden for exposing the trafficking of aborted baby body parts. She has called for Roe v Wade to be codified federally, and is the only sitting vice president to have toured an abortion mill… Meanwhile, her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, has presided over the most radical abortion laws in the United States, having made foeticide legal at all stages of pregnancy in his state.

On the campaign trail, Kamala Harris claimed that Trump planned to institute a nationwide abortion ban, despite Trump denying this outright.

While Kamala took an increasingly extreme stance on abortion, Trump moderated his, much to the lament of pro-lifers.

Tuesday’s result made it clear that Americans are more closely aligned with Trump’s abortion policies than Kamala’s — and more importantly, that abortion is simply not a winning election issue.

6. Transgenderism

Even though a majority of Americans disagree with the ideology, transgenderism became a signature issue of the Biden-Harris administration.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris supported policies allowing biological men who identify as women to share girls’ locker rooms and compete in women’s sports. They hosted and honoured a string of controversial transgender personalities at the White House. Their administration vocally supported sex-change surgery and other interventions for children of any age at the taxpayer’s expense. They even declared Easter Sunday — the most solemn Christian holiday of the year — as ‘Transgender Day of Visibility.’

Donald Trump saw this extremism for what it was, and came out loudly against it during his campaign, even as Kamala Harris began backing away from the issue. On Tuesday, the still-intact Christian conscience of America rendered its verdict.

7. The Trump Hoaxes

Donald Trump’s political and media critics were so deeply dishonest in how they framed key events from Trump’s political career that their narratives can only be described as hoaxes. Unfortunately, the Australian media was complicit in spreading many of these hoaxes — especially the ABC, which did so at the taxpayer’s expense. Consider just a sample:

• The Trump Mocked a Disabled Person Hoax
• The Suckers and Losers Hoax
• The Trump Implemented a Muslim Ban Hoax
• The Trump Put Kids in Cages Hoax
• The Russian Collusion Hoax
• The Fine People Hoax
• The Drinking Bleach Hoax
• The Hunter’s Laptop Is Russian Misinformation Hoax
• The Find Votes Hoax
• The January 6 Insurrection Hoax
• The Bloodbath Hoax
• The Trump Killed the Border Bill Hoax
• The Project 2025 is Trump’s Plan Hoax
• The Enemy from Within Hoax
• The Trump Threatened to Kill Liz Cheney Hoax

Perhaps the wildest hoax of all was the idea that Donald Trump and his supporters are Hitler-loving Nazis and fascists who pose an existential threat to democracy.

At a minimum, American voters failed to be convinced by these outlandish claims. At best, many voters saw election day as a way to reclaim the narrative and expose the Trump hoaxes for what they were.

8. Election Fraud

US elections are far from secure, and cases of election fraud and interference are well documented.

While news outlets in Australia presented the 2020 US election results as unquestionable, countless Americans still have questions about what took place. Consider that Trump lost that election by just tens of thousands of votes in a handful of swing states — the same states that saw highly unusual activity, like ballot irregularities, voter machine errors, and dark-of-night ballot dumps.

In the most obvious case of election interference, Twitter and Facebook censored accurate reporting by the New York Post that exposed then-candidate Joe Biden’s involvement in an international money laundering scheme. Just days later, 51 former intelligence officials, without evidence, dismissed the story as Russian disinformation, in an effort to shield Biden.

In the fallout of the 2020 election, even the leftwing Time magazine admitted that “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, [were] working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information” in order to “fortify” the election against Donald Trump.

In recent years, these efforts at fortification have increased. As Elon Musk recently explained to Joe Rogan, the 2024 election was potentially the last chance to preserve American democracy. He gave clear evidence the Biden-Harris administration had been importing vast numbers of undocumented immigrants into swing states, with plans to legalise them as citizens and shore up their voting block, thus turning those swing states into permanent one-party jurisdictions like California that would never vote Republican again.

Joe Rogan and Elon Musk discuss how allowing illegal immigration and banning voter ID is a strategy for establishing a permanent Democrat majority. pic.twitter.com/zb5h9FzxEP

— Wayne Vaughan (@WayneVaughan) November 5, 2024

On the other side of the aisle, Trump campaigned on implementing same-day voting, voter ID, paper ballots and proof of citizenship — measures that enjoy overwhelming support from American citizens.

Mercifully, Americans voted to ensure they can keep voting in fair elections.

9. Trump’s Campaign

In a nation where election season runs for almost a year, Trump ran a far more energetic campaign, despite being well into his 70s.

Donald Trump and his Vice President pick JD Vance made dozens more campaign stops than Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz. Trump delivered almost all of his speeches off-the-cuff, and his rallies were routinely attended by tens of thousands of grassroots supporters, videos of which appeared regularly on X but rarely in mainstream reporting. By contrast, Kamala’s events were highly scripted, and had far fewer attendees — many of whom were bussed interstate to artificially inflate crowd size, according to geolocation data.

Harris was notorious for turning down media interviews and press conferences where she was required to give unrehearsed answers. She faked phone calls and door knocks for rolling cameras. Significantly, her campaign could not agree on the conditions for an interview with top podcaster Joe Rogan, even as Trump, Vance and Musk spoke to Rogan for a combined nine hours in the final days of the campaign. Tens of millions of young men heard those interviews. It was the demographic Harris failed most to reach.

It didn’t help that Kamala Harris was installed as the Democratic nominee without a single vote being cast, or that she was a historically unpopular Vice President, or that she took part in the cover-up of Joe Biden’s evident cognitive decline, or that her sudden popularity as a presidential candidate was largely manufactured by the legacy media.

😬 pic.twitter.com/O2bxCVh7em

— Ben Davis (@BenDavisCP) November 6, 2024

10. Trump’s Coalition

Many people still find Donald Trump hard to stomach, but over recent months, there has been a growing social acceptance for Trump supporters and Trump support. Part of this is due to the impressive coalition Trump has built, which includes:

• Robert F Kennedy Jr, the most active member of the Kennedy dynasty, whose vow to reform America’s food and drug agencies won over many young, independent voters
• Elon Musk, the billionaire magnate who led a powerful ground game in Pennsylvania during the final month of the campaign, and had broad appeal among libertarians, disaffected liberals, tech entrepreneurs and men
• Tulsi Gabbard, the former combat veteran and US representative from Hawaii, who also appealed to disaffected Democrats, along with military veterans and young women
• By far, Trump’s most formidable ally turned out to be VP-elect JD Vance, who has shown a unique ability to interpret Trumpism to America’s elite, and who will almost certainly inherit the Trump dynasty in 2028.

Conclusion

To better understand why Trump won the support of so many Americans, click on the following links to read what Bill Ackman, Konstantin Kisin or Greg Gutfeld had to say, or listen to the words of CNN commentator Scott Jennings, below:

Scott Jennings nails it, must listen pic.twitter.com/1I5SdxgYAz

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) November 6, 2024

If there was one quote that might best explain the 2024 US election to Australians, it came from cartoonist Scott Adams, who said, “Today is a contest between the people who think the news is real and those who know it is not.”

And if there is one analysis that will stand the test of time, it will be these words from venture capitalist David Sacks:

This is a bankruptcy moment for the legacy media. They shrieked Nazi, fascist, traitor, insurrectionist at the top of their lungs for years. The country didn’t believe it. Their spell is broken. Their credibility is destroyed. It’s a new dawn.

— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) November 6, 2024

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