
Just How Sweeping Is MAGA’s Mandate?
On November 5th, the American people gave Donald Trump one of the most resounding and consequential political mandates in generations. By the popular vote count, he won more in total than any – legitimate – presidential candidate in history, eclipsing by 3 million his own record-breaking 74 million votes from 2020.
On the electoral college side, Donald Trump amassed more of such votes than any Republican president since George H.W. Bush, nearly forty years ago, who at that point was just one election removed from Ronald Reagan’s 49-state landslide and rode the momentum of his predecessor.
By 2024’s standards, Donald Trump’s 2024 victory – both in terms of electoral and popular vote – was a landslide. Not only were the sheer numbers unexpectedly staggering – 312 electoral votes plus 77 million popular votes.
But the context in which this victory came: multiple assassination attempts, countless phony charges and indictments, and a barrage of fake news hit jobs, makes the victory, in a word, miraculous.
Every single noteworthy institution, political and cultural, from Hollywood to the mainstream press to the Academy, was aligned against Donald Trump unlike any candidate in American history.
It is clear, especially in the aftermath of the election, why precisely they were so aligned against Donald Trump: he and his movement represented the old American nation, the remaining vestiges of the one still beholden to constitutional government and self-rule.
The counter movement, embodied by Kamala Harris, was the ideology of globalism, open-borders, and institutionalized Marxism made flesh.