In my last post I explained why I thought that Trump would lose.\u00a0 As it has turned out, he won bigly instead.<\/p>\n
The English-speaking world is swarming presently with smart people’s attempts to explain this victory. That makes me feel a little better.\u00a0 Since none of them agree, it means that all but one of them are wrong, and,\u00a0entre nous<\/em>, I have my doubts about that remaining one.<\/p>\n Personally I think that it came down to two things.\u00a0 First, the economy and third-world migration had a broad impact on people’s dissatisfaction.\u00a0 Second, Harris’s profound stupidity and repulsiveness were coupled with her identity as 50% of the team who caused this dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n I obviously misjudged these factors when I predicted a Trump loss.\u00a0 I overlooked the last-mentioned factor, that voters tend to reject the party in power when things are looking bad.\u00a0 I also wasn’t looking too much at the economy, which means the price of eggs. Also, I probably overestimated the attrition from earlier Trumpsters’ disappointment with his first tour of duty.\u00a0 Be they as disappointed as I thought, they, like me, had little choice but to pull the lever once again.<\/p>\n The victory was clear enough to stifle any challenges, but it was still close enough to 50-50 to leave me thinking that it’s far too early to be singing “Happy Days Are Here Again.”\u00a0 Trump’s recent appointment of Tom Homan as border czar (a title without definitions) is a good sign.<\/p>\n Perhaps the lawfare they’ve waged against him and the assassination attempts have beaten some resolve into him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my last post I explained why I thought that Trump would lose.\u00a0 As it has turned out, he won bigly instead. The English-speaking world is swarming presently with smart people’s attempts to explain this victory. That makes me feel a little better.\u00a0 Since none of them agree, it means that all but one of … Continue reading “. . . but what do I know?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45dxY-8e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}