A vote for Trump is a vote for normalcy
He speaks at length, doesn’t always stay on message, doesn’t act like a normal politician because he's not, he's a businessman, and things were better under him
Billionaire Elon Musk is one of the few in his economic bracket excited to support Donald Trump. (Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times)
In 2020, Joe Biden and the corporate media promised that electing him over Donald Trump would bring a return to normalcy. It was a nice campaign tactic, but Biden brought absolutely no normalcy to the White House.
Today, the southern border is in shambles. College students are cheering for terrorists and openly attacking their Jewish classmates. Woke nonsense is still infecting vast swaths of society. The corporate media may downplay those issues, but people tend to trust their own eyes instead of the lies being sold.
But now Trump and Biden’s running mate are on the ballot, and the corrupt media and Kamala Harris herself are running with the exact same line: Trump is chaotic, but Harris will bring a “return to normalcy.”
Don’t buy it — again.
“Return” is a curious word given that Harris is vice-president, Number 2 in the current administration. Nonetheless, Kamala Harris, who received zero primary votes and was so bad at raising money she dropped out before Iowa in 2020, is attempting to cast herself as the change candidate.
To an extent, she has been able to effectively distance herself from her present job, even as President Biden ties her to it — except when she forgets to distance herself from it, telling the loons on “The View” that there is nothing she would’ve done differently had she been president the past four years.
What is interesting about that glaring mistake is, given that even Kamala agrees we need to move on from the policies of her current administration, why couldn’t she think to say that to those women?
Nevertheless, the election remains close. Those on board with him don’t think there’s any need to justify your vote for President Trump to pull a Grover Cleveland while acknowledging he is a unique candidate. He is not a polished media-created hero. Instead, he is a media-created villain.
He speaks at length, sometimes rambling. He doesn’t always stay on message. He definitely doesn’t act like a normal politician though he has performed much better in all those situations since the convention, establishing for many voters that he isn’t the fool the media makes him out to be.
Nonetheless, given that he’s got an “R” next to his name, that doesn’t mean the corporate press lacks has ample fodder for the villain storyline regardless of whether that storyline is true and accurate. They want to paint a picture of him refusing to conform himself to the behaviors of “normie voters,” that is people in the suburbs.
While there are exceptions, there aren’t a lot of faces and heels in the suburbs doing battle with one another. The neighbor who votes for the Democrats exclusively will help the neighbor who only votes for Republicans. People are nice to one another. We are polite.
Early voting has started in 31 states and in many places, it looks like election day. Absentee and mail-in balloting is reported to be heavy with less than three weeks to go before November 5. (Photo: Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
Most of us don’t live on the internet where the worst of us comes out. If anyone ever did a study, they would likely find that the people online filled with anger and vitriol online and on social media are nothing like that in real life.
Trump, ever the entertainer. is rarely presented as someone you’d enjoy a normal conversation with at the HOA meeting.
Harris, though, seems like someone who would be way too into HOA policies, the type who causes HOAs to have justifiably bad reputations. She’s all about bureaucracy and rules just for the sake of bureaucracy and rules. Perhaps her name should be Karen.
From a theoretical viewpoint, she wants to help you improve the value of your home by increasing demand without increasing supply. On paper, that works great but isn’t truly practical in the real world. Beyond that, she is not the candidate of suburbia, even if she is a familiar creature in those parts.
Instead, she is a candidate of the universities, of the crazies. She wants to do some communism. Her campaign claims she is now against electric vehicle mandates, but she cannot explain what exactly made her change her mind. She was the tiebreaking vote for the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which included such mandates because it was nothing less than the Green New Deal in disguise.
She celebrated that vote in August of this year, a month after Biden announced he was dropping out and during her honeymoon period with voters. Given the honeymoon is over and that she said there are zero changes she’d make to the past four years, it’s unlikely that her conversion is genuine but is nothing more than politically expediency.
None of this even gets into one of the current administration’s biggest weaknesses: Chaos on the geopolitical stage. There was the shameful Afghanistan withdrawal. Iran has been coddled. Don’t forget about the Chinese spy balloons or the disastrous Gaza pier debacle or any of the 105 items on this list. As President Biden has said, Harris was involved in all of the administration’s decisions, so those are on her too.
Trump’s administration, on the other hand, delivered peace. Whereas his unpredictability in front of a microphone may offend normie sensitivities, it makes oppositional leaders nervous. They may talk a big game, but they generally don’t want to die like dogs.
Amid all of these issues, however, voters’ top concern remains the economy once again. In 1992, James Carville famously told Bill Clinton’s campaign team, “It’s the economy, stupid.” His point was that the economy, then in a recession, was the primary issue that concerned most voters.
Carville was saying it was the biggest opportunity on which to capitalize for Clinton, the change candidate. It proved a successful message. But back then, inflation was only 3 percent. In 2022, under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ leadership, it was 8 percent and is up overall since they took office by 19.3 percent.
Most Americans say inflation and the economy are the driving-force issues for this presidential election. (Photo: Courtesy Scripps-Howard News)
For those of you now screaming that inflation is going down, you need an economics lesson. It isn’t. It is only increasing at a lesser rate. All those monthly increments of increase represent how prices went up one month over another. When economists state inflation is, for example, 2.2 percent at an annual rate, that is 2.2 percent more than last year.
In other words, in August 2022 when it was 9.1 percent and only 3.4 percent in August 2023, that meant the annual inflation rate was then 12.5 percent higher overall than in August of 2021. In August 2024, the inflation rate was 2.6 percent. You can do the math, even if you don’t want to do it.
Though the corporate media tout that inflation has “cooled” since then, one doesn’t need charts or graphs or fake jobs reports to understand that everything is more expensive. Restaurant trips are fewer than they were when Trump was in office. Store brand purchases at the grocery store are greater than ever. Gas prices remain high.
Quite simply, if Ronald Reagan’s famous question, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago”? is asked now, the answer is “No, we are not.”
We were better off under Trump.
It was once a given that peace and prosperity were normal American virtues, that we’d get along with our neighbors and family, and that neighborhoods and campuses wouldn’t be prone to domestic strife.
There was a time when, while we might fight over politics and politicians, those fights didn’t consume our lives. For decades, the corporate press has sought to divide us, with its monomaniacal obsession hitting its nadir with the election of Donald Trump.
Yet his administration didn’t bring in fascism or any of the other -isms the media promised would occur, and which have occurred under Biden and Harris instead. Make no mistake, the media has also lied to you about what is Fascism since World War II.
Instead, Covid aside, we got four fairly normal years of America, despite the partisan vitriol that has consumed too many of us. When Joe Biden promised to return normalcy to the country, what he really promised was to be a normal politician and continue exploiting that vitriol.
Harris is promising to do the same, to say one thing and do another, to make promises she has no intention of keeping, and to keep us divided, to do politics as usual.
Trump is not a politician at all. He’s a businessman. He is like many of our Founders and Framers in that respect.
When it comes to delivering actual normalcy, he’s the better choice this November. If you’re a normie, that’s what should matter to you more than mean tweets and believing media lies.