The analysis of this election focused almost exclusively on the demographic groups that voted for Trump and were once solidly in the Democratic camp. The chattering classes are mainly on the Left and are busy examining what went wrong. Much less attention is paid to the political realignment on the "Trump side" than the Republican side. The election was about the country's direction and Trump's promises rather than Republican vs. Democrat.
I believe Republicans are deluding themselves if they think that the increased vote for Trump by blacks, Latinos, and even women meant that these groups were voting for Republicans. This is a grave error on their part.
I believe what is even more important than the votes Trump got from traditional Democrats is the fact that Republicans have become "Woke." I mean, woke in terms of waking up to the fact that Republicans were victimized by their party every bit as much as Democrats victimized their voters.
Democrats victimized their Black core by providing them subsistence income and housing them in crime-ridden inner city ghettos.
Republicans lied to their middle-class voting base by promising them more freedom and frugal government without having the slightest intention of delivering.
Trump's resurgence was amazing. Despite a good governor - Ron DeSantis - as his primary opponent, he was an unstoppable force in the primary election. There was a reason for that. What is happening Is that traditional Republican voters are busy abandoning the Republican Party and forming a new coalition built around the idea that in a representative republic, the governing class should put their countrymen first. Traditional Republican voters are realizing that the conventional Republican candidates lie to their voting base, having no interest in actually implementing the promises that they make.
A great example of this is Mitt Romney, who represents a pole of the old Republican Party that hates Trump and the ideas he stands for. When Romney and Ryan ran they said everything the base expected to hear. They lied to the Republican voters. I was one of them. And it took Trump's 2016 election to open my eyes to the fact that the Republicans colluded with the Democrats to sabotage what was nominally a Republican administration. That was also when the "thought leaders" of the Conservative camp - like the National Review gang - showed they were for sale to the highest bidder and never believed anything they had been selling.
Today, a lot of those voters see the Republican establishment for what they are. Just as the Democrat ruling class lies to their black and Latino base for their votes and doesn't give a damn about what happens to them once they get into office. Republicans have realized that the people they voted for who held themselves out to be on their side didn't give a damn about them. They would say anything to get their base to vote, but once they got to Washington, they joined the Uniparty, got rich, and raided the Treasury.
Once Trump assumes office, it will become evident that he must defeat not only the Left but also the remnants of the Republican RINOS. The Republicans—GOP—are going the way of the Whigs. The new coalition will be built around MAGA. That's a good name for a political party.
