What Happened To Kamala Harris?
A post-mortem of the American election
Donald Trump has done it again. Against all odds, he won the 2024 presidential election. Despite polls showing razor thin margins, Trump won every swing state by a significant margin en route to a dominant victory in both the electoral college and the popular vote.
However, a closer examination of the numbers shows that although he out performed his polling`, Trump received about the same amount of votes in 2024 as he did in 2020. Meanwhile, the number of voters for the Democratic party absolutely collapsed, falling from 81 million in 2020 to 70 million in 2024. Millions of voters were so disgusted by Kamala Harris that they decided they’d rather stay home.
The Democrats are scrambling to assign blame for this thumping, but it is unlikely that their nature will allow them to come to the right conclusions. The Democrats lost because because four years of the Biden/Harris administration left millions of Americans so alienated that they decided, with some justification, that no matter who won the election, they lost.
When given a choice between Harris and Trump, these people chose a third option and stayed home.
A major reason for that alienation by is because the administration spent years post-COVID gaslighting working Americans about how their economic struggles were actually Russian propaganda.
Biden’s often-touted economic numbers were little more than smoke and mirrors. According to the administration and many in the mainstream press, the economy was the best it had ever been, and anyone who disagreed was a Kremlin agent. Biden had added jobs to the market, increased the Dow Jones and the GDP, and that was all that mattered.
Of course, it was never mentioned that in a country with such stark income inequality, only a small fraction of any GDP gains will ever find their ways into the pockets of the working class. As it has been with every other president since the post-war era, Biden presided over a record-setting expansion of wealth inequality. These gains in the GDP were almost entirely realized by the rich. It speaks to the neo-liberal mindset at the foundation of Biden’s regime that they believe so strongly in trickle down economics that they honestly think making the rich richer has benefitted the economy instead of making it worse.
Likewise, the jobs added were mostly one of two types. Either jobs returning which had been eliminated during the pandemic or insecure, gig type jobs such as Doordash, Uber and et cetera, which by design cannot support a worker or their family. As prices have skyrocketed to such an extent that they have vastly outstripped wages, even full time workers are being pushed into the gig economy to make ends meet. After the pandemic, these gig jobs exploded to such an extent that now a full 40% of the American workforce relies on them to supplement their income. While the Biden regime bragged endlessly about how many jobs they created, they did not mention that workers need two or three jobs just to survive.
When it comes to stocks, the market is so disconnected from reality that it has essentially become a giant pump and dump scheme for the ultra wealthy who can afford to play shell games with their money. The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of all stocks, and with their vast portfolios, gains of a few percentage points equate to huge sums of money.
These numbers are easily fudged because the average American does not interact with the stock market through direct ownership of stocks, but through investment in retirement funds. With the average 401k balance sitting at around $100,000, the annual return on investment was mostly gobbled up by inflation and cost of living increases. The only people making a fortune from the stock market and the Biden economy in general are those who were already rich.
As it so happens, the apparatchiks running the Biden government and most of the media are from that privileged class. The economy is doing great for them, they have gained more wealth under Biden than any other president, including Trump. These people are simply so disconnected from the reality of the average American family that they assume everyone is doing just as well as they are.
Perhaps the best example of this is the Harris campaign itself. Despite their complaints about the wealthy buying elections1 due to Elon Musk’s involvement, it seems that their strategy was simply to outspend Trump. In this regard, they succeeded. The Harris campaign raised about three times more than Trump. Of course, a successful strategy does not guarantee victory if the strategy is bad in the first place.
Despite the fact that the Harris campaign burned through a billion dollars with such rampant excess that they can’t pay their employees and suppliers, they still lost. While Trump spent far less, he spent more effectively. The Harris campaign spent so much that they are in debt and so desperate for money that they still send out fundraising e-mails to cover their shortfalls.
Showing once again how disconnected she is from the struggles of the average American, Harris spent most of her time and money chasing clout and celebrity endorsements. According to MSNBC talking head Joy-Ann Reid, Harris ran a “historic, flawlessly run campaign” because she received the endorsement of “every major celebrity” like Taylor Swift, Queen Latifah and Beyonce.
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