Naturally enough there is already an enormous volume of commentary on Donald Trump winning the US presidential election. Yet assigning motives and influences to millions of voters has too many plausible aspects to be framed tightly enough for articles, interviews and in this case - blog posts.
For example, it was always possible that Kamala Harris was there to lose the election, isolate the Biden era as an aberration of the past and quite possibly make money and build opportunities on a Trump presidency.
We might back this up by pointing out that the absurdity of the Harris candidacy became too obvious too quickly to have been entirely unforeseen by wealthy Democrat backers.
If so, perhaps Kamala Harris was too useless and inauthentic to be plausible as a genuine candidate and the political establishment always knew it. Maybe, but this angle is merely one among many, a possible aspect of a complex event with many other viewpoints.
But she was an absurd candidate.
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I’ve pondered the Republican and Democratic election methods. I’ll suggest (using a very broad brush) that Democrats are much more concerned about reputation than Republicans. This has a positive side in that the Dems are more likely to be concerned about 'nice' things - equality, racism, and ‘fairness’ and thus signal their virtue – but the downside is that all the attacks on the personality of Donald Trump and the ‘deplorables’ do not manage a palpable hit (which puzzles the Dems).
The Republicans, and especially Donald Trump, are far more motivated by policies and actions and were given no reason to expect any from Kamala Harris.
Trump is absurd, too, in an entirely different sort of way. It would have been difficult to imagine such a person getting elected only 30 years ago. Both Vice-Presidential candidates seemed to be more in line with how we expect an American politician to be. I wonder what future historians will make of both of them. But they won't be able to estimate their essence - what they actually made the public feel at the time.
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