So much for Trump’s mandate
We keep hearing about how Donald Trump won this election in dominant fashion and now has a mandate from the American people. Here’s the thing: it’s simply not true. The votes are still being counted, and it turns out Trump is now a lock to get less than 50% of the popular vote. What’s more he’ll end up having defeated Kamala Harris by as little as one percent of the vote.
I can hear you asking now: so what? What’s the point? He still controls every branch of government, no matter how narrowly he won. The point is this. One of the reasons Trump and his people (and the complicit media) is hyping this notion of a “Trump mandate” is that they know how hard this is going to be for them to govern. Trump won because Americans are very stupid when it comes to economic issues, and much more racist and sexist than we’d hoped. But the reality is that most people who voted for Trump in 2024 still don’t like him, aren’t excited about him, and merely voted for him because they stupidly think he’ll bring prices down.
Most Americans who voted for Trump in 2024 didn’t sign on for his extremism, his corruption, his dementia, or his massive incompetence. They just wanted cheaper eggs. Once they see that Trump can’t magically bring prices down, they’ll very quickly have buyer’s remorse and will very quickly be willing to turn against Trump. He could be looking at an approval rating in the thirties by early next year, which would make him so unpopular that he’d lack the political muscle to accomplish much of what he wants to accomplish.
That’s why it’s a big deal that Trump isn’t entering office with a mandate to begin with. He narrowly won and he got less than 50% of the vote. Hell this guy ran in three presidential elections in a row and couldn’t get 50% of the vote in any of them. He’s the same unpopular loser as ever.
So we need to be taking Trump’s narrow win and lack of a mandate and shouting it from the rooftops right now. We need to shout down any media outlet or talking head who claims Trump has a mandate. He simply does not. We need persuadable Americans in the middle to know right off the bat that Trump didn’t even get 50% of the vote and that the American people didn’t give him a “mandate” to do anything. That’s how we drive Trump’s approval rating down further, and ensure that he’s too politically crippled for any of his agenda to come easily to him.
