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As I Said, This Election Is About Class, Not Race Or Party

David Strom 

 

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The coalitions that once were the Republican and Democrat Parties have cracked and begun to fall apart, and in their place, a new alignment is developing that is based almost entirely on social class. 

 

Not economic classes, which in the United States are more fluid than anywhere else in the world, but social classes, which are hardly as fluid because they are foundational to our identity in a way that purchasing power is not. 

 

White college-educated voters--especially those who have attended prestigious colleges and universities--and the cultural elite are foursquare behind the Democrats in a "vote Blue no matter who" fashion; working-class people, increasingly of every race--are backing Trump and moving toward the populist Republicans. 

 

Blacks and Hispanics are trending rightward, while suburban white-collar voters are increasingly Democrat. Issues are hardly irrelevant, of course, but social identity is becoming the key metric when it comes to Party ID. 

 

An essay by Joseph Epstein--an extraordinary writer and social critic--put an exclamation point on this phenomenon for me. 

 

Writing on the Opinion page of The Wall Street Journal yesterday Epstein explained why he simply cannot vote for Trump, despite finding him ideologically sympatico on most of the major issues. 

 

Trump is crass, and that is not OK. The world can burn for all he cares, as long as the pants crease is sharp and the diction smooth. 

 

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I recognize in Trump all the flaws that Epstein does. I would have preferred a different candidate, or a more modest Trump for that matter. 

 

But Trump is the right man for the job at the right time. That is why mavericks--people who care more about results than vibes--are flocking to Trump. That Elon Musk--whose sophomoric sense of humor is as "classless" as Trump's boastfulness--has allied himself with Trump says quite a bit. 

 

The man who will get us to Mars before NASA gets us to the moon is backing Trump because he knows that a classy decline is still a decline and that progress and brashness often travel hand in hand. It was not the soft-handed, tweed-wearing college professors who settled the West. It was hard men doing hard things, with hardy wives who braved the wilds. 

 

It is often the crass and the hardy who push humanity forward. It is the General Pattons who win wars on the battlefield. MacArthur was crass and egotistical, and you wouldn't want a world only populated by such people. 

 

But society needs them. Especially when it is in trouble. And America is in trouble. 

 

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/10/21/as-i-said-this-election-is-about-class-not-race-or-party-n3796083

 

 

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As Trump Hits His Stride, Harris and Walz Get Dark and Angry

David Strom 

 

Donald Trump keeps getting called "dark," and there is no doubt that part of Trump's pitch is based on the gloom Americans feel about the state of the world and the gross incompetence of our leadership. 

 

But the truth is that Donald Trump, more often than not, leads with humor, although the kind of humor that half the country is blind to. His is a teasing, often lowbrow sense of humor that relies on tropes, nicknames, and bawdy stories at times. For people of the "right" class, it is not funny and endearing but rather crude and off putting. 

 

If you look at Trump's campaign over the past few weeks, despite the man having been shot and enduring the most appalling smear campaign in American history, enduring lawfare that would make Vladimir Putin smile, and a corporate media onslaught of lies, Trump is literally dancing his way into the Oval Office. 

 

Trump's supporters see the raw hatred aimed at the man as a confirmation that he is the right man for the job. An establishment that has failed the country and especially the middle class so badly is determined to stop Trump and his supporters. 

 

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/10/23/as-trump-hits-his-stride-harris-and-walz-get-angry-n3796141

 

 

 

 

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Gillette, Bud Light, Kamala

Calling an entire sex toxic is no way to sell blades, beer or candidates

By Don Surber

 

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Kamala Harris, who seeks to be the first black woman president and second plagiarist (FJB beat her to that punch) now finds herself in Hillary’s high heels. 

 

At any rate, Kamala has discovered that the gender gap runs two ways. If women are supposed to support a female candidate just because she is a woman, then men have the right to support a male candidate just because he is a man.

 

This concept has finally dawned on Democrats and their servants in the press, who decry this reasoning as toxic masculinity. The press has convinced itself that mincing Walz and Emhoff the Nanny Knocker Upper are the new model of the modern man, as he sits on the toilet and pees.

 

The polls show men are rejecting Kamala for the same reason she rejects them.

 

Columnist Nicole Russell wrote, “A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll shows former President Donald Trump leading among men 53% to 37%. Vice President Kamala Harris' lead with women is 53% to 36%.

 

“The gender gap in this election matters beyond politics and portends significant problems for the nation.”

 

I don’t agree. The problems are there. Women are 50% more likely to get into college and men are 9 times as likely to be in prison. The media and the government repeatedly try to emasculate men as they want to turn us into drones for these queen bees. The gender gap merely shines light on the problem.

 

After decades of this stereotyping of men as evil and the constant discrimination against men, males have had it. The backlash may have begun with Hillary but it later torched Gillette, which launched a ridiculous ad campaign on attacking toxic masculinity. ...

 

Having learned nothing from Gillette or Bud Light, Democrats plunged forward into the Big Muddy of their War on Men this year. In October, it finally dawned on them why their boots and clothes were wet.

 

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/gillette-bud-light-kamala?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1115457&post_id=150644668&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9bg2k&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

 

 

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