Summary
Trump’s popular vote share has fallen below 50% to 49.94%, with Kamala Harris at 48.26%, narrowing his margin of victory.
Trump’s share of the popular vote is lower than Biden’s in 2020 (51.3%), Obama’s in 2012 (51.1%) and 2008 (52.9%), George W. Bush’s in 2004 (50.7%), George H.W. Bush’s in 1988 (53.2%), Reagan’s in 1984 (58.8%) and 1980 (50.7%), and Carter’s in 1976 (50.1%).
The 2024 election results highlight Trump’s narrow victory and the need for Democrats to address their mistakes and build a diverse working-class coalition.
The numbers also give Democrats a reason to push back on Trump’s mandate claims, noting most Americans did not vote for him.
Would you say the same to the black and Hispanic voters who elected Trump as being stupid? Look at Europe and they have also have the same far-right problem. De-industrialised Northern France, Eastern Sweden and East Germany are voting the far-right. You can’t just tell people to reskill when there are no alternatives offered. You can’t also expect them to move. There are still people living in Detroit, right? The problem with Western governments and its citizens is they are bad with offering alternatives and essentially abandoned the working-class. Just look at Liverpool-- they were the second busiest port city in Britain but experienced economic and population decline in the latter half of 20th century. Despite all that, the government of Liverpool has been effective in investing in their communities, attracting businesses, and revitalising their economy and city. And they have always been proud multicultural, has strong working-class background who always voted for Labour, and voted to Remain in the EU unlike its similarly neighbouring de-industralised Northern English counties.
Sure, there are racists who voted Remain, Trump, Sweden Democrats and Le Pen, but liberals need to realise that you can call others racists or misogynists if they haven’t offered alternatives. I found it laughable that anti-Trumper social and news bubble keep making character assassinations, but rarely I see posts highlighting how Democrats would do better economically than Trump (and frankly, Harris’ economic platform isn’t very appealing compared to Trump which is why I understand why people voted for him). Otherwise, those who are left to fend for themselves are feeling vulnerable and lost in a dark place are desperate to hug a dark embrace from the allure of easy promises. I’m amazed you dismissed FDR’s quote about economically insecure folks being the ingredients of a dictatorship. It is true then and true now. It just so happens that I am listening to a podcast and the main criticism on both liberal and left alike is the grown hubris of appearing know-it-all and taking down the working-class, either intentionally or not. The sooner the left, liberals and progressives get out of their bubble, look at the problem at close distance, and search for others for inspiration (Liverpool’s revitalisation is a success for example), then the sooner they would win back the next election. There is a reason why many electorates sat down because they were not inspired. It’s not enough to tell other eligible voters of “tRoLlEy pRoBlEm” which Lemmy and the left drool over. Offer tangible solutions. Blame inflation as much as anyone wants, but the fact of the matter is that Democrats haven’t done enough to alleviate the effects which does not make much of the people “feel” the growing economy.
you think im going to leave out black and hispanic people? Isn’t that equally as racist. I firmly believe that if you voted for trump in 2020 or 2024, you are either, stupid, or maliciously ignorant, and it’s one of the two.
my brother in christ, we are long past any alternatives, republicans have been steaming full speed ahead into pseudo fascism for a long time, a caring mother isn’t going to stop a psychopathic kid from killing her if they desire.
you really need to have better social media and internet presence than. There have been LOTS of videos, and posts about how trump is going to be bad for the economy. Seems to me like you’re doing trump apologism right now.
If we’re talking platform wise, trumps platform is objectively and measurably worse than kamalas. You may not know this, on account of being stupid of maliciously ignorant, but that’s not my fault. Global tariffs are a hilariously terrible idea. Bringing the fed under the control of the executive, is an absolute meme. Appointing the richest man in the world, to an apartment for government efficiency, is pure fucking oligarchy. You can’t be unironically serious when you state “trumps economic policy is better” when you’re staring into the eyes of a fucking russian oligarch that owns an entire nations oil industry. Let alone one that has a position in government.
i was just pointing out how demonstrable it is that the voting populous is stupid and ignorant on most things, considering they would rather vote in a dictator, than do literally anything else. Covid may have also been a recession as well, but not a depression, not a global incapacity for economic trade and movement. We’re doing fine as far as that goes right now, we’re just experiencing high inflation in the wake of the entire global shipping industry shutting down for a year.
you mind sharing the podcast? Curious what it is.
you mean like kamalas policy? All of the ones that she actually had, unlike trump who “had concepts of a plan”
The consequences of inflation had been decades in the making. Thirty years of neoliberal policies and fifty plus years of stagnation on real wages is now paying its dues, because real wages has not kept up with ever rising inflation. The working class is certainly the most affected and even experienced lower growth in real wage. While not the sole problem, it contributes to radicalising a population. The US and other parts of the word had it coming because of said policies. Prices of less valuable consumer goods have gone down, but the basic essentials and health care keeps going up and up. That being said, the overall inflation has decreased since the pandemic but basic essentials has not. Those with higher income may not feel the pinch, but the working class and many in the lower middle class certainly does. These people are brainwashed and hoodwinked to blame the wrong people like immigrants, minorities and lgbt, while the monied class gets away with it.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”- Lyndon B. Johnson
It’s not Trump apologism-- it’s reality check. The left and liberals should get out of their bubble, because they are doing the inverse of being hoodwinked by convincing them to look down on the working class as well. Who are the ones constantly blocking affordable housing in the liberal-bastion that is California? That’s right, it’s the liberals themselves, who are also rich like many conservatives are. You could easily Google the information on that one if you don’t believe me. Are you also aware that California put anti-homeless spikes and other deterents on areas where the vagabonds sleep? I’m sure many of those homeless folks came from poorer states to look for a job in California; but the lack of affordable housing and being unable to find a job with decent pay to afford rent renders them vulnerable. They did what many told them to do: move out of their shithole places and go to where there is opportunity, right?
The podcast I refered to is in my native language which is hosted by a highly-esteemed professor and political analyst who has been invited by international news outlets for interviews including The Guardian, BBC, ABC, and Al Jazeera. He is a social democrat but a critic of those from the affluent section of the left and liberals who keep putting down the working-class. Slavoj Zizek also made the same broad observation about the left and liberals-- that there is a certain naïveté among the group.
This isn’t being apologetic for Trump-- it is a wakeup call for the left, whose former base is the working-class but is now subsumed by the far-right (liberals in the classical sense have hardly been reliable as class-ally), to be aware of the blindspot and close that narrow gap of a spot. Yes, one can keep calling the working-class racist or bigoted, but they are the ones who have once voted for the left but now keep voting far-right. It is worth pointing out you seem to refuse to acknowledge that. Look around you. Look outside your home, outside your town, outside of your state, and outside of your country, the working class used to vote for the left but what happened? Look around and ask yourself that question and you will find your answer. There is no longer a version of penny auction in this generation. As in, there is no longer a class-solidarity that existed during the Depression era. The affluent today show concerns for the homeless and less fortunate, but when it is time for call to action, there is little appetite to approve alleviating the cost of living and housing crisis, and consign the working class as dumb and bigots, instead of realising these have been brainwashed to scapegoat the innocent.
Going to the Harris promise, I admire the promise to build 3 million homes but the $25,000 downpayment to buy a house as government assistance isn’t exactly appealing considering how much the average American house prices are these days. Trump promised no taxes on tips and then Harris simply copied it. Why not increase the federal wage instead? Oh that’s right, the Democratic party is in actuality a spineless center-right party who don’t want to rub their rich donors the wrong way. Unfortunately, Trump promised to re-energise the dying fossil fuel industry, which appeals to the working-class. But what have the Democrats promised as alternative in the former blue wall to dis-incentivise working in the fossil fuel industry? What have the Democrats promised to replace the old manufacturing jobs with? Can you really blame the working class for siding the Republicans with promise of re-shoring more jobs and putting tariffs on imports?
There needs to be another Roosevelt who has the spine to stand up and not be afraid of monied interests, despite coming from old money itself. Again, there is no class solidarity nowadays. The liberals and left indeed abandoned the working-class.
this one is just a demonstrably true fact, although you could argue the problem, in both directions, prices of goods are too high, pay is too low comparatively to goods. etc…
it depends on how you define the working class, and several other factors, but generally lower income households are more pressured by economic woes. And the US population voting people like trump in, who are objectively, the WRONG person, are quite literally, shooting themselves in the foot. The US historically has had a much more progressive income tax, than it does now.
Although this is also ignoring things like quality of life as well.
it’s not clear at all what this is measuring, if this accounts for inflation properly, or if this even accounts for differences in service availability. But there are a lot more things accessible to us now, than there was 20 years ago, medically. People could be getting on aggregate, more treatment now, than they were previously. It’s extremely unclear what any of this represents.
The prices of food and other essentials going up does track. Compared to consumer goods and electronics where manufacturing only gets significantly easier year over year, leading to more and more accessible technology.
inflation is a delta (change in % increase) where as actual goods are simply an value. Inflation going down doesn’t mean the price of goods goes down, that’s impossible, that’s not how inflation works. Unless you’re referring to some kind of magical “essential item” inflation that exists now, and didn’t previously.
people keep saying this, but people still manage to buy things like food, goods and services just fine, in fact if you look at black friday spending this year, it seems pretty constant with what it’s been over the past few years as well.
yeah, and they keep voting for monied people like trump, like fucking dumbasses. What do you want me to say here?
a reality check by pointing a loaded gun at your head pulling the trigger, and hoping it jams.
Yeah great fucking idea.
please demonstrate an example of liberals/lefties looking down on the working class, i myself am quite naturally a working class person, i like doing work, though i am also relatively highly educated. That’s just the nature of me, and i think humanity in general. If you don’t pursue education, and knowledge, you can only blame but yourself for the lack of it. It’s not hard to educate yourself on politics, there’s plenty of great reading, especially if you live in america, like all of the founding papers that were written throughout the years, plenty of great legal scholars have written good works, plenty of economists have written good books, people like warren buffet exists and have things you can learn from. It’s not hard, you just have to apply your ability to learn.
i don’t think anybody is doing that, i think people are calling the republican party largely racist and bigoted, which is demonstrably true. Just look at the deportation rhetoric, or the objectively racist statements about Haitians eating dogs. In fact if any group here is demonstrating an explicit aversion to another political group, it’s the right. They HATE the left, and anybody on the left, while the left does have people that hate the right, the right did inevitably do this to themselves, and they have nobody to blame but themselves for it. Even then a lot of liberals and lefties are more than willing to engage in good faith with republicans, like me. The primary problem is that republicans struggle massively to engage in a good faith manner, by virtue of living in delusion.
yeah, and they voted for biden overwhelmingly, who was an objectively good president who actually supported the working class, through things like unionization and labor rights, as well as various funding packages for things like the IRA and the infrastructure bill. Including significant tax breaks, primarily intended to benefit people of lower economic income status.
And yet these are the same people who voted for trump, someone who only cares about himself, and pretends to care about the people. It’s not hard to see that the voter base is largely uneducated and incompetent when it comes to politics, just look at history throughout the world.
literally nobody likes these polices, they are extremely unpopular.
i dont think this is even statistically supported, i would expect most homeless people be native population, at least as of recent capacity. Poor people don’t exactly have the luxury of being able to move, otherwise they wouldn’t be poor. Most of the poor population in rural states is stuck where they live because they don’t have the money to be able to move anywhere else.
also a lot of homeless people have issues with drugs, addiction and mental health, so they aren’t exactly the average working class, they’re the bottom of the barrel, cast out by society at large.
interesting, you don’t happen to be eastern european do you? Zizek is iirc, and he is also broadly known to be a philosopher, rather than a political individual, granted some of those things tend to apply across the pond so to speak.
i assume you’re talking about the depression era farm auctions, not the modern incantation which is horrid. There are two primary reasons, one, finance is a lot more complex, and people very rarely own their own homes these days, things are a lot more centralized as well. And two, there hasn’t been a need, remember during the great depression that the entire economy was fucked. This was the primary reason penny auctions were able to happen, that and lack of actual regulation.
Kamalas campaign literally ran on the housing crisis, but ok.
isn’t this explicitly for first time home buyers? Where it would be a fairly significant value of the house? even like 1/10th of the value would be significant, especially for a down payment.
do you think the trump admin tariffs on canadian import lumber have anything to do with the wild housing market we’re seeing now? I do.
what were all the first time home buyer credits for, all the tax breaks, the stuff like the IRA and the infra bill, and all of the child care credits as well? Are those not helpful? Most jobs today aren’t working at federal minimum wage, that’s not really going to do much, and economically it’s questionable whether it would be impactful in a productive manner. It might even make things like food SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive, a big concern to you, apparently.
why would you de-incentivize this when it’s broadly popular? Wouldn’t that be a bad campaign move?
brother they’re already gone, and again, the IRA, the infra bill, VA benefits, all the tax breaks. Trump is only going to make this a worse position arguably.
yes, because tariffs are in every sense of the word, in every example that’s ever happened, it doesn’t fucking work. I cannot stress this hard enough, tariffs have literally never worked.
that person was biden.