Post by NFA on Nov 7, 2020 6:09:25 GMT 8
The real resistance
The 70million people who voted for Trump are revolting against the new elites.
Brendan O'Neill Editor 6th November 2020
well worth reading the lot
So Joe Biden has won the highest popular vote in the history of the US. At the time of writing, more than 73million people have voted for him. He has beaten the record set by Barack Obama who was swept to power on that famous wave of ‘HOPE’ and 69.5million votes in 2008.
But here’s the thing: so has Donald Trump.
Trump might be trailing Biden in the popular vote of 2020, but he, too, has beaten Obama’s 2008 record.
Trump, at the time of writing, has 69.7million votes. So he has won the second-highest popular vote in the history of the American republic.
That is remarkable. Far more remarkable than Biden’s very impressive count.
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Trump has lost.
But so has the anti-Trump establishment.
In some ways, the establishment’s loss is far more significant.
These elites see in the 70million people who disobediently, flagrantly voted for ‘evil’, and who question the doom and divisiveness and censure of the new elites, a genuine mass threat to their right to rule and their self-serving ideologies.
And they are right to.
For these unconquerables, these teeming millions who have not been captured by the new orthodoxies, are proof that populism will survive Trump’s fall and that the self-protecting narratives of the new elites are not accepted by huge numbers of ordinary people.
This is the real resistance.
This is the real resistance.
Not the upper-middle-class TikTok revolutionaries and antifa fantasists whose every view – on trans issues, Black Lives Matter, the wickedness of Trump – corresponds precisely with the outlook of Google and Nike and the New York Times.
No, the resistance is these working people.
These defiant Hispanics.
Those black men who did what black men are not supposed to do.
Those non-college whites who think college ideologies are crazy.
These people are the ones who have the balls and the independence of mind to force a serious rethink and realignment of the political sphere in the 21st-century West.
More power to them.
