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Trump is Dead--What the Mid-Term Elections Tell Us, and Why [1]

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Date: 2022-11-10

After Mid-Terms, Oh Surprise! Trump is Dead, Part 8.

Long Live Democratic Voting in America

by Bruce Piasecki, author of World Inc and Wall Street Journal bestseller Doing More with Less, social historian concerned about elections and Democratic traditinos, and our two party system.

The mid-term election results, a subject of month’s of liberal and media anxiety, are in. All signals suggest Trump proved a big wet negative factor in voting. New York Post shows a Trumpty Dumpty breaking the GOP, wondering if anyone can put it together again? New York Times itemizes the big loses to those aligned with election denial and Trump. And not be topped, the ever reliable Daily News puts a pink faced Trump near a little defeated Mehmet Oz calling it Trump’s Big Fail.

I hope you all recall back 10 months in Daily Kos, and elsewhere, I said the mid-terms would result in this rebalancing in favor of normal American political ways.

1. But does it mean anything deeper than Trump is Dead?

2. Does it underline the strengths in the democratic voting patterns, revealing a stronger and steadier American way to the Chinese, those misfits in Brazil, and those like Putin who Trumped once admired?

Back nearly a year ago, I described why Trump is Dead in a six part Medium.com series since the January 6 assault on our democracy.

****View my record if you wish. It jives with Bob Woodward’s accounts, and those more close to it all in the Washington Post, but instead, I talked about the social values and social meaning in this slapping of Trump where it hurts.

I was simply describing what appears to my training to be classic social history. Democracy has a way of cleansing a party of its one time losers.

Bigger than the pattern is this: The January assault by Trump and his clones put an end to Donald Trump, no matter what you thought of his three plus years in office.

Here are the big patterns of 2022 and the mid-term elections, and the American voter:

The Trump red wave did not happen in the border of Mexico. Or anywhere. Look at who won there on the Border, where a Wall was never built! The extremes of the good old Republican party split its pants wide open in the mid-terms, and many within the Republican tradition, like Chistie, remain laughing at the defeated candidates, naked, and flagging in the winds of exposure. Notice the silence still of Mitch and the McDonnell. The Trump candidates that were election deniers mostly lost. This will be studied in detail for months, but the overall pattern is worth noting this day. A caveat, too: The professional Republicans in Florida and Texas, for the big dollar jobs, won by keeping a distance from the corpse of Donald Trump. The folks in Florida and Texas, now celebrating, represent the old patterns of the Republican party, in essence, not Trump humping. Too early to tell how negative the Trump effect will prove on the key remaining states of Arizona, Nevada and Georgia.

In sum, the hard results of democratic voting stood tall.

Many in America saw this coming, like Michael Moore, Bob Woodward, and others.

Professional politicians, so unlike the stage clowning of a Trump, know how to wear the required protections from the sun—think here of the Republicans that won. You can not last in politics without a wide hat to bring a diverse range of folks into your shadows. Most only see Trump people now as victims of the big lies, more than two thirds of the motivated populace.

Remember the Latina Red Wave Does not Exist on the Mexican Border Friends

For those of us who have faith in the legal process (such as our faith in nailing each and every January 6 assailant and supporting politican), justice is being served, and the votes are aligned. Expect more of this thru the 2024 election, when most of the crazies will be eliminated from running by good politics, rational press, and open government.

**I am not cooking up a story here.

There are few leftovers for the defeated in politics.

The idea of making miles and new meals out of defeat is just not in the American way.

We like winners, not losers.

Most see this clearly, knowing how to count votes since elementary school popular contests where the bullies are defeated in time.

There was little violence on our streets this last week, as our military and defense departments have been isolating in jail the worst of the worst anarchists that Trump had befriended.

And his family is embarrassed. And folks like Rudy and Roger and others are in jail, or heading that way, with their tails between there legs — watch Roger Stone talk these days. A dog wagging as a loser, like Trump himself.

The attornies prosecuting The Donald— from New York to Georgia — feel his arguments and his skin are as cold as a corpse. They find the submitted papers a mockery of legal norms. Pissing in the wind. Trump is dead.

Critics used to look at his faulted language claims, or his psychosis, or his bad hair. Historians can now openly document him as the worst president in American history.

The great majority of American voters notice this now. Think thru in thisi 8th account of the basic math before you.

****70 percent of the eligible voters that are either women, minorities, or youth under 29.

Face these facts, please.

That is why Trump is dead.

He is not an ideologue. He has no ideas except denial of known defeat.

He is reactionary, and the world has moved past him.

Look at the exit polls, too.

Over two thirds of the people asked say that they have an unfavorable view of Trump. More than 54 percent of the asked public say Trump will be me a factor by 2024. This is noticed on Fox, quietly, and loudly, on other TV outlets. Track the New York Times for accurate social commentary, or view the BBC and the British print media.

What is next?

I predict about a year of coverage on what went wrong that stopped the “Red Scare.” Some, in the press, will further expose Trump’s affiliations with Putin and trace the Russian monies from 2014 to 2023.

The vocal support of election deniers will get quieter. I call all this the higher facts in social history. You need to be a very self-defeating Republican not to look for better options for President right now.

Of course, the desperate deniers will keep propping up the Donald Trump corpse. It is easy to mock a loser who refuses to get off center stage, like a Trump or a Musk. European street protestors used to elevate baloons of Trump as a big baby in diapers hovering above the people. Some can sell books doing the same now.

Restatement: Why Trump is Dead Politically

But politically, and in terms of social media, Trump is dead. Period. I hope someone soon writes a popular folk song, “Trump is Dead” and plays it for the record on Caffe Lena’s distinguished stage.

Hear me my friends in the Republican party.

Trump is dead.

Once this is realized after real Republican candiates emerge for the Presidential 2024 race, we can always focus on other profoundly insane self-certain folks like Elon Musk and those now shooting to space or running Amazon.

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