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Government Corruption
Clarice Feldman: May the Force Be With Us
2024-11-18
By Clarice Feldman

[AmericanThinker] There have been thousands of words written about the 2024 presidential election, but I think Jeffrey Tucker’s article at Brownstone best summarized the sea change in votes cast, and Victor Davis Hanson best describes the cabinet nominees so far of greatest significance, people selected in part to avenge their treatment by the prior lawless administration.

Tucker argues that what we are seeing is an actual, not purported, transfer of power. A transfer from a permanent government to a new one actually responsive to actual voters against pollster predictions:

What was correct were the betting odds on Polymarket, and only days later, the FBI raided the 26-year-old founder’s home and confiscated his phone and laptop. There are still many millions of missing voters, people who supposedly showed up for Biden in 2020 but stayed home this time. Meanwhile, there has been a historic shift in all races, ethnicities, and regions, with even the possibility of flipping California from blue to red in the future. After decades of academic slicing and dicing of the population according to ever more eccentric identity buckets involving race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual interest, along with countless thousands of studies documenting deep complexity over intersectionality, the driving force of the election was simple: class, and the few intellectuals and some wealthy entrepreneurs who understand that. The division was not really left vs right. It was workers vs laptoppers, wage earners vs six-figure stay-at-homers, bottom half vs top 5 percent, people with actual skills vs weaponized resume wielders, and those with affection for old-world values vs those whose educations have beaten it out of them for purposes of career advancement. The silent majority has never been so suddenly loud. It just so happened that the heavily privileged had come to inhabit easily identifiable sectors of American society and, in the end, had no choice but hitch the whole of the overclass wagon to the fortunes of a candidate like themselves (Kamala) but who was unable to pull off a compelling masquerade. Not even a parade of well-paid celebrity endorsements could save her from total rebuke at the polls.

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Posted by:badanov

#6  Grom the Reflective all AOC really has to do to see why the Democrats lost the election is look in the mirror.

She gonna go out there an have an abortion for solidarity's sake?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-11-18 13:10  

#5  In SEC v. Jarkesy (2024), SCOTUS restricted the use of "administrative law judges" by agencies. The same agency that wrote the rules shouldn't be able to prosecute citizens in “courts” that it controls.

These agency administrative courts have allowed the proliferation of regulations outside of Congress for a too long a time. It's resulted in the leviathan of regulations that strangle business today.
Posted by: JohnQC   2024-11-18 12:03  

#4  Grom the Reflective all AOC really has to do to see why the Democrats lost the election is look in the mirror.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2024-11-18 11:20  

#3  There is a question about whether the coalition can have permanence. I think it can, if the proposed changes and improvements actually take place. Vance and Gabbard are smart enough to steer this for another 8 years beyond Trump’s second term. The enemy of this enterprise remains corrupt and stupid people, the DC denizens. The swamp needs to be drained not swallowed.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-11-18 07:38  

#2  Elon Musk shares awkward 'truth' behind photo of Trump's inner circle


Posted by: Skidmark   2024-11-18 02:55  

#1  AOC hints AIPAC responsible for Democrats' defeat
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-11-18 01:15  

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