Turning Point and Trump 2.0: New Popular Republican Party
Trump won the national argument last night.
In a landslide that’s still being counted, he won early and
sealed the deal. It’s been a brilliant campaign. He did a lot of rallies last time
as well as this time, but he managed a few genius public demonstrations this
time. He stopped by the infamous bodega in New York that was robbed by a crook.
By doing so he brought attention to the crime in the city under the corrupt leaders.
He wouldn’t have been in New York but for the nonsensical trial for supposed campaign
finance misuse. He worked a shift at McDonalds to bring attention to Kamala’s
lie about working there when she was younger.
Old Guard
His campaign rented a garbage truck after Biden called his
supporters garbage. That one the campaign pulled off in less than a day. The GOP
of Mitt Romney would never do this. They weren’t running as a representative of
the people and their interests. We didn’t have an alternative really. Ron Paul
was sharp but hardly popular. He was too wonky on policy for the average voter.
Trump did the one thing no one else did, he listened. Ann Coulter told him to run on immigration because everywhere she went,
people talked about it. It was important to Americans but not politicians.
Whenever they talked illegal immigration it was about work
visas. Americans were concerned about crime. We never got an effective border wall
because the business class didn’t want it. Trump at least started building the
wall. Coulter got squeezed out of the White House and never forgave Trump for
it. He never adopted her ideas, which were responsible for his election. He did
lean on Mexico to keep a lot of the border crossers on their side. He bulked up
the border with ATF agents as well.
Illegal Immigration
I thought about this last night while watching the returns. I chose to watch Charlie Kirk’s Rumble channel. Charlie is responsible for a lot of the get-out-the-vote efforts this cycle. His Turning Point Action group got serious after last year’s steal. They educated locals in key states, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. This election is about how Turning Point turned out the youth vote. They wrested control of the RNC from the old guard once Trump wrapped up the primary elections. They made Laura Trump co-chair of the RNC and started spending wisely.
A big complaint from MAGA republicans is the lack of help
they get from the RNC. The old guard (McConnell, Ryan) hate the MAGA movement and
refuse to spend money on their races in key states. Money makes a huge difference
in close elections. The Washington establishment was letting MAGA world know
how they felt about their movement. Turning Point was the lynchpin for moving
the Republican party away from its corporate roots and toward a popular
movement. They helped Trump organize his ideas from the first term into
something more seamless. Along the way they got Elon Musk and RFK Jr to endorse
and become full members of team Trump.
Trump needed TPUSA for the ground game. He is clearly the
star and popular enough to lead in the polls. But voting is about getting your
supporters out to actually mark their ballots for you. This year was no
different, except the margin of victory was so much clearer. The Democrats didn’t
get their people out.
Wonky Time
I tuned in early last night. I like to hear the analysis. I
geek out on elections too. The TPUSA guys are serious data nerds and it’s fun
to hear them handicap the race. They talk ballot dumps and county ethnicity breakdowns.
They get excited, like toddlers at the zoo, when a swing state like North
Carolina flips. They talk over each other constantly, pour over every new tranche
of reports from the state and compare each to the last election. Some of the
guys tell stories about the past year on the campaign trail. They lost their YouTube
feed at one point. One of them referenced a website as a joke and YouTube cut
them. I wasn’t sure why this was exactly. Was it a copywrite thing?
Charlie was on edge and extra careful after that.
Right around the time the group called Iowa for Trump, it
looked like a fantastic night for DJT. Pennsylvania was still counting but
running out of votes for Kamala. Even the New York Times projected Trump would
win PA. Then Wisconsin started looking good and Michigan too. Even without the western states, there wasn’t much of a path for Kamala at this point. Trump had North
Carolina and Georgia in the bank. All he needed was Pennsylvania to get the
magical 270 electoral votes and secure it. I went to bed content with a Trump victory.
His margin was too big to try a middle of the night dump of votes.
New Day
I’m optimistic for this new administration. This is Trump
2.0. Nearly killed twice, he’s under no illusions how important this is. He is
a survivor of some of the worst lawfare I’ve ever seen. It’s strengthened his resolve.
He has a better idea of who to trust and who not to trust. He hired some real
losers last time. His coalition looks strong and atypical. Normally you’d see a
list of regular senators and statesmen from previous administrations in the
cabinet. We’ll see some of that. But we’ll also see business and tech people. General
Flynn will be heavily involved in cleaning out the justice department I hope.
This country needs serious people to start to fix the mess.
It’s not just economic either. The Biden and Obama administrations treated the
federal government like their own private army. Raiding offices and arresting
their opponents; dragging citizens through circus courts and tossing them in
jail. There are millions of illegal aliens in the country they need to be
escorted back to their country. Something tells me Trump 2.0 is going to be a
more serious and effective administration than the last time around.
Conclusion
I checked on some choice video clips from the Turning Point
crew this morning. They stayed up all night to analyze the returns. At one
point Jack Posobeic, basically, told Charlie to take a bow. It was clear that
all the hard work paid off. He teared up for a bit, but being the humble guy he
is, wouldn’t take credit.
Trump won the national argument last night, and we can thank
Charlie Kirk for his part in it.
The Republican party looks different today. Thank God.
