Election 2024 Was a Complete Rejection of Progressivism
Donald J. Trump did more than become the first President since Grover Cleveland to recapture the White House after being voted out.
He increased his share of the vote in his third run.
He won nearly half of Hispanic voters, a majority of Hispanic men, a significant increase in Black men, and a shocking 45% of the Jewish population of New York.
Trump won the popular vote and the Electoral College.
Even some liberal news organizations conceded that Trump fairly and honestly won a clear governing mandate.
While Mr. Trump and his team deserve credit for winning, they also were very lucky.
They could not have asked for better political conditions for a party out of power.
Nearly 80% of Americans thought the country was on the wrong track.
Democrats were so scared of losing that they forced out a weak candidate in U.S. President Joe Biden for an even weaker candidate in U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump was imperfect, but Ms. Harris was a terrible candidate on every level.
She was terrible at governing.
Try finding a successful Biden-Harris governing accomplishment.
She was inept at national campaigning and ended her 2020 presidential campaign before a single caucus or primary vote had been cast.
Due to her left-wing ideology, she became a darling of the Obamas.
They practically forced then-Senator Joe Biden to add her to his ticket even after she called him a racist in a 2020 Democratic primary debate.
Additionally, Harris was inauthentic, and enough people saw through it.
She was not defeated because of racism, sexism, or any other Democratic excuse contradicted by hard evidence.
She lost due to a lack of competence.
Yet this still misses the big picture.
The Harris-Walz loss was far from an anomaly.
She is a progressive, and progressives suffered their most humiliating defeat since the 1994 midterm wipeout.
Too many American voters are disgusted with failures emanating from progressivism’s toxic political ideology.
Even notoriously liberal areas in the last two years have tried to reverse the most insane of their destructive policies. Democratic lemmings ignored the warning signs and marched off of the left-leaning cliff anyway.
In July of 2022, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was ousted.
In the 2024 Democratic primaries, Squad members Reps. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri were bounced from the U.S. House.
While an overwhelming majority of the electorate was fed up with "The Squad," the chronically tone-deaf Harris campaigned the day before the election in New York with original Squad darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
On election day 2024, former San Francisco and current Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon suffered a landslide election blowout.
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price were both recalled. San Francisco Mayor London Breed was ousted.
Former New York Congressman Mondaire Jones’s comeback attempt failed badly. Far left Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Jon Tester, D-Montana, will no longer be voting against the will of their deeply conservative constituents.
Both were shown the door by wide margins. Despite being given $100 million by outside interests, Rep. Collin Allred, D-Texas, soundly lost his Texas Senate bid to incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Progressive policies were being reversed to stem the tide of future election losses.
Four years after legalizing all drugs, Oregon voted to recriminalize hard drug use.
The 2020 maneuver by Alaska Democrats to rig future elections through rank choice voting was narrowly repealed.
Attempts by Democrats in Colorado, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon to install the rank choice voting scheme were defeated.
Anti-crime measures in Arizona, California and Colorado all passed.
Efforts to legalize recreational marijuana failed in Florida, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Even Massachusetts, the American bastion of liberalism, voted against legalizing psychedelic drugs by a 15-point margin.
California’s initiative to raise the state minimum wage from $15 to $18 per hour failed.
Uber-left Washington State voters passed an initiative banning their state government from restricting access to natural gas.
While blue states were shifting into reverse, red states were happy to hit the accelerator to advance conservative policies and run over leftist ones.
Kentucky voted to allow state funding of non-public schools. Kansas voted to force Kansas City to refund their police. Attempts to ban non-citizens from voting won by landslides.
At least 62% of voters in eight states approved ballot measures banning this practice, with 86% of South Carolina voters favoring the prohibition.
Election 2024 was a complete and total rejection of progressivism because progressivism is failure and Americans are anti-failure.
Rich liberal celebrity one-percenters offered vibes, joy and twerking.
Four years of progressive government policies forced Americans to endure mandates, bans, censorship, inflation, and violent crime.
Conservatives are imperfect, but progressivism is crazy.
Voters in 2024 overwhelmingly cast their ballots for sanity.
Eric Golub is a comedian, author and retired stockbrokerage and oil professional living in Los Angeles. His interests include football, politics, Judaism, the stock market, and Angela Lansbury's "Murder, She Wrote." He has written for the Jewish Journal, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart's Big Hollywood. Read more of Eric Golub's reports — here.