Like many Democrats who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, the middle-aged woman in the clip below struggles to process her loss. She’s at a dog park, and feels very wary of those around her. She doesn’t know who is on her side and who’s on the other side. Apparently, there’s a plan for Trump resisters to start wearing blue bracelets to identify who can or cannot be trusted. This woman believes “that will help.” In the meantime, however, she worries that, because she is a white woman, others might think she voted for “him.” All of this has left her feeling very unsettled.
I am experiencing this unfamiliar feeling and I wondered if anyone else has been feeling this way. So, I’m at the dog park, and I feel so mistrustful. Like, I don’t know who’s on my side and who’s on the other side. I mean I know we’re going to start wearing the blue bracelets and I think that will help. But, like, does anyone else feel that?I just have this fundamental mistrust. Like I’m just looking at everyone, going ‘Are you part of why this happened? Are you a safe person?’ I can only imagine how the marginalized communities are feeling right now. And I also don’t want people to be looking at me thinking, ‘Oh, white woman, she definitely voted for him.’ It’s a very unsettling feeling. Is anyone else experiencing that?
This woman’s reaction to President-elect Trump’s victory goes far beyond disappointment over a lost election and enters derangement territory. Like a member of a cult, she has lost all sense of self-awareness and has no idea of how ridiculous she sounds.
Fortunately, actor James Woods was happy to provide a reality check. Attaching her video to a post on X, he stated the obvious: “They wonder why we Americans gave President-elect Trump a landslide victory. We are just tired of crazy people quite frankly.”
It didn’t take long for Trump supporters to respond.
The young woman in the video below tells the blue bracelet brigade all they need to know.
Several weeks before the election, liberal podcast host Mark Halperin predicted that a Trump win would trigger “the biggest mental health crisis in America’s history, and it won’t just be a temporary issue that resolves by inauguration day.” He may be right.
The extremism that took over the Democratic Party when Trump declared his candidacy in 2015 has been nothing short of astonishing. No action was off the table because … Trump. For many on the left, resistance to Trump has become their religion.
Following President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020, Republicans were incredibly disappointed. For good reason. We understood that his administration’s radical agenda would fundamentally change America and we were powerless to stop it. All we could do was wait four more years and trust voters to see for themselves how disastrous liberal governance would be for the country.
And voters were smarter than Democrats thought they were. Ultimately, despite the media’s elevation of Harris to rockstar status and the Democrats’ relentless gaslighting, they overwhelmingly chose Trump — across every demographic, and in every part of the country. He swept the swing states and won the popular vote. He even cut the size of his 2020 losses in deep blue states such as New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California in half. He shifted the electoral map and expanded his coalition. It was a decisive victory.
In the end, voters chose America First over America Last and common sense over insanity. Trump’s resounding victory was a collective shout of “Enough.”
Trump’s coalition has strengthened as the Democrats’ has weakened. A coalition consisting of well-educated and affluent citizens who are concentrated in large coastal cities will not win them many elections.
How did such a highly educated, elite, and enlightened bunch not see this coming? And how long will it take them to recover?
Elizabeth writes commentary for The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board at The Sixteenth Council, a London think tank. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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