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Trail Bites: Trump Creates Red Wave to Secure Second Presidential Term

Americans Go To The Polls In The 2024 Elections

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By Chris Ryan

America sent a clear message on Election Day; they want Donald Trump to lead this nation.

Period.

That fact might be difficult for many Americans to rationalize, but it is the fact. Just as the case was in 2020 with Joe Biden.

Biden told me at New England College in 2007, "America selects the man or woman to fit the times."

The beautiful and frustrating thing about this American experiment is that neither you or nor I get to determine what "the times" are. That's determined by the collective will of Americans via this process.

Donald Trump has said and done things that me and many folks have consistently deemed "unacceptable" based upon past norms, but he is not some sort of abnormality, he is a reflection of who we are as a nation and that is what many people have great difficulty figuring out.

Trump is very good at understanding the human condition, reading the crowd and determining how to get what he wants.

The ultimate sales guy.

He has been able to capitalize on years of pervasive selfishness in Washington, elitism and a lack of ability/will by both parties to deliver for the American people.

Just look at our last four Presidents and how Trump has used their failures to catapult himself and test what folks would find to be “acceptable” behavior.

-Bill Clinton lowered the bar for what was morally acceptable for a President and he and Hillary became insanely rich in the aftermath of their Presidency trading on their names and that she might return to power. Clinton’s economic policies and the loss of American jobs also laid the groundwork for Trump’s populism.

-George W. Bush decreased the intellectual threshold of what was expected from the leader of the free world and took us into Iraq and Afghanistan on faulty information creating/enhancing Government distrust. Thousands died, more suffered the visible and invisible wounds of war and we spent $757.8 Billion dollars on the Iraq debacle alone.

-Barack Obama may have done the most to create the environment where Trump could flourish based upon his economic policies. No one was held responsible for the Great Recession despite questionable economic decisions and predatory behavior that cost Americans their life savings, this all while the wealth gap increased between the top 1% and the middle class.

-Joe Biden’s greatest failure was his inability to communicate effectively with the American people while his age and cognitive decline created a perception of weakness that played into Trump’s biggest draw, “strength”. He also ignored or sought to downplay the biggest issues of this election: inflation and the border. Biden pledged to heal the nation and instead concluded by referring to his opponent’s supporters as “garbage”.

What democrats haven’t been able to understand, is that a majority of the American people understand exactly who Trump is, and they’re ok with that.

President-elect Trump has had a message since I first met him in 2015 of ‘Politicians are idiots, they don’t understand you, what do you have to lose by voting for me? Also, I’m going to make you so rich.’

Now, he has Senate and House majorities and an opportunity to make that happen.

What’s clear is that this isn’t an end to the book, just another chapter.

Chris Ryan is the host of New Hampshire Today on iHeart NH's news/talk stations from 6-9a weekdays. His "Trail Bites" column drops each Wednesday afternoon.


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