The economy matters, but the likes of Trump succeed by offering voters revenge for problems both real and imagined.
D onald Trump, for the first time, won a majority of the popular vote. He took the US presidency with huge swings ( https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/05/us/elections/results-president.html ) in his favour, increasing his share of first-time voters, young voters, black voters and Latino voters. And he gained among voters earning under $100,000 ( https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls ) , while wealthier voters preferred Harris – a reversal of the class alignments in 2020. Current voting tallies suggest the swing to the Republicans was largely caused by mass abstention among Democrat voters. This result echoes global trends. Trump and his new coalition will now head a loose alliance of far-right governments from India to Hungary, Italy, the Philippines, Argentina, the Netherlands and Israel. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/far-right-leaders-economy-voters -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33520): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33520 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109528741/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
