June gleefully shouted to anyone within earshot, “We are going to make history tonight!” On Election Night, the Kamala Harris staffer was beyond jubilant. En route to an election party, she howled what had become a victory mantra to every passerby: “We are going to make history tonight!” Speaking to me on the condition of anonymity, “June” confided that “the vibes were very good. We were hitting and surpassing our expected turnout.” She stopped short, sighed, and recalled, “Around 9:30 it turned. It was very sudden. We were all blindsided.”
And quite a blindsided turn it was. On November 5, Donald Trump did more than steal the Democrats’ lunch money — he forced liberals to watch him eat their meal. The obvious numbers, 312 electoral votes and 49.8 percent of the popular vote, obscure the actual onslaught. Harris won the college-educated by 14 points and those earning $100,000 or more. That left Trump with the hoi polloi, or as mathematicians call it, “the majority.” And this cuts to what is a favored term of today’s Left, the party’s very “identity.” Since Thomas Jefferson, voters had identified Democrats as the “party of the working class” and Republicans (and their Federalist forebearers) as the advocates of elites. Trump has now flipped that script.
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