5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win
07/23/2016 03:45
Friends:
I am
sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last summer
when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for
president. And now I have even more awful, depressing news for you: Donald J.
Trump is going to win in November. This wretched, ignorant, dangerous part-time
clown and full time sociopath is going to be our next president. President
Trump. Go ahead and say the words, ‘cause you’ll be saying them for the next
four years: “PRESIDENT TRUMP.”
Never
in my life have I wanted to be proven wrong more than I do right now.
I can
see what you’re doing right now. You’re shaking your head wildly - “No, Mike, this
won’t happen!” Unfortunately, you are living in a bubble that comes with an
adjoining echo chamber where you and your friends are convinced the American
people are not going to elect an idiot for president. You alternate between
being appalled at him and laughing at him because of his latest crazy comment
or his embarrassingly narcissistic stance on everything because everything is
about him. And then you listen to Hillary and you behold our very first female
president, someone the world respects, someone who is whip-smart and cares
about kids, who will continue the Obama legacy because that is what the American people
clearly want! Yes! Four more years of this!
You
need to exit that bubble right now. You need to stop living in denial and face
the truth which you know deep down is very, very real. Trying to soothe
yourself with the facts - “77% of the electorate are women,
people of color, young adults under 35 and Trump cant win a majority of any of
them!“ - or logic - “people aren’t going to vote for a buffoon
or against their own best interests!“ - is your brain’s way of
trying to protect you from trauma. Like when you hear a loud noise on the
street and you think, “oh, a tire just blew out,” or, “wow, who’s playing with
firecrackers?” because you don’t want to think you just heard someone being
shot with a gun. It’s the same reason why all the initial news and eyewitness
reports on 9/11 said “a small planeaccidentally flew into the World Trade Center.” We
want to - we need to - hope for the best because, frankly, life is already a
shit show and it’s hard enough struggling to get by from paycheck to paycheck.
We can’t handle much more bad news. So our mental state goes to default when
something scary is actually, truly happening. The first people plowed down by
the truck in Nice spent their final moments on earth waving at the driver whom
they thought had simply lost control of his truck, trying to tell him that he
jumped the curb: “Watch out!,” they shouted. “There are people on the
sidewalk!”
Well,
folks, this isn’t an accident. It is happening. And if you believe Hillary
Clinton is going to beat Trump with facts and smarts and logic, then you
obviously missed the past year of 56 primaries and caucuses where 16 Republican
candidates tried that and every kitchen sink they could throw at Trump and nothing could stop his juggernaut. As of
today, as things stand now, I believe this is going to happen - and in order to
deal with it, I need you first to acknowledge it, and then maybe, just maybe,
we can find a way out of the mess we’re in.
Don’t
get me wrong. I have great hope for the country I live in. Things are better. The left has won the cultural
wars. Gays and lesbians can get married. A majority of Americans now take the
liberal position on just about every polling question posed to them: Equal pay
for women - check. Abortion should be legal - check. Stronger environmental
laws - check. More gun control - check. Legalize marijuana - check. A huge
shift has taken place - just ask the socialist who won 22 states this year. And
there is no doubt in my mind that if people could vote from their couch at home
on their X-box or PlayStation, Hillary would win in a landslide.
But
that is not how it works in America. People have to leave the house and get in
line to vote. And if they live in poor, Black or Hispanic neighborhoods, they
not only have a longer line to wait in, everything is being done to literally
stop them from casting a ballot. So in most elections it’s hard to get even 50%
to turn out to vote. And therein lies the problem for November - who is going
to have the most motivated, most inspired voters show up to vote? You know the answer to this question. Who’s the
candidate with the most rabid supporters? Whose crazed fans are going to be up
at 5 AM on Election Day, kicking ass all day long, all the way until the last
polling place has closed, making sure every Tom, Dick and Harry (and Bob and
Joe and Billy Bob and Billy Joe and Billy Bob Joe) has cast his ballot? That’s
right. That’s the high level of danger we’re in. And don’t fool yourself — no
amount of compelling Hillary TV ads, or outfacting him in the debates or
Libertarians siphoning votes away from Trump is going to stop his mojo.
Here are the 5 reasons Trump is going to win:
1. Midwest Math, or Welcome to Our Rust Belt Brexit. I believe Trump is going to focus much of
his attention on the four blue states in the rustbelt of the upper Great Lakes
- Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Four traditionally Democratic
states - but each of them have elected a Republican governor since 2010 (only Pennsylvania
has now finally elected a Democrat). In the Michigan primary in March, more
Michiganders came out to vote for the Republicans (1.32 million) that the
Democrats (1.19 million). Trump is ahead of Hillary in the latest polls in
Pennsylvania and tied with her in Ohio. Tied? How can the race be this close
after everything Trump has said and done? Well maybe it’s because he’s said
(correctly) that the Clintons’ support of NAFTA helped to destroy the
industrial states of the Upper Midwest. Trump is going to hammer Clinton on
this and her support of TPP and other trade policies that have royally screwed
the people of these four states. When Trump stood in the shadow of a Ford Motor
factory during the Michigan primary, he threatened the corporation that if they
did indeed go ahead with their planned closure of that factory and move it to
Mexico, he would slap a 35% tariff on any Mexican-built cars shipped back to
the United States. It was sweet, sweet music to the ears of the working class
of Michigan, and when he tossed in his threat to Apple that he would force them
to stop making their iPhones in China and build them here in America, well,
hearts swooned and Trump walked away with a big victory that should have gone
to the governor next-door, John Kasich.
From
Green Bay to Pittsburgh, this, my friends, is the middle of England - broken,
depressed, struggling, the smokestacks strewn across the countryside with the
carcass of what we use to call the Middle Class. Angry, embittered working (and
nonworking) people who were lied to by the trickle-down of Reagan and abandoned
by Democrats who still try to talk a good line but are really just looking
forward to rub one out with a lobbyist from Goldman Sachs who’ll write them
nice big check before leaving the room. What happened in the UK with Brexit is
going to happen here. Elmer Gantry shows up looking like Boris Johnson and just
says whatever shit he can make up to convince the masses that this is their chance! To stick to
ALL of them, all who wrecked their American Dream! And now The Outsider, Donald
Trump, has arrived to clean house! You don’t have to agree with him! You don’t
even have to like him! He is your personal Molotov cocktail to throw right into
the center of the bastards who did this to you! SEND A MESSAGE! TRUMP IS YOUR
MESSENGER!
And
this is where the math comes in. In 2012, Mitt Romney lost by 64 electoral
votes. Add up the electoral votes cast by Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin. It’s 64. All Trump needs to do to win is to carry, as he’s expected
to do, the swath of traditional red states from Idaho to Georgia (states
that’ll never vote for Hillary Clinton), and then he
just needs these four rust belt states. He doesn’t need Florida. He doesn’t
need Colorado or Virginia. Just Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And
that will put him over the top. This is how it will happen in November.
2. The Last Stand of the Angry White Man. Our
male-dominated, 240-year run of the USA is coming to an end. A woman is about
to take over! How did this happen?! On our watch! There
were warning signs, but we ignored them. Nixon, the gender traitor, imposing
Title IX on us, the rule that said girls in school should get an equal chance
at playing sports. Then they let them fly commercial jets. Before we knew it,
Beyoncé stormed on the field at this year’s Super Bowl (our game!) with an army
of Black Women, fists raised, declaring that our domination was hereby
terminated! Oh, the humanity!
That’s
a small peek into the mind of the Endangered White Male. There is a sense that
the power has slipped out of their hands, that their way of doing things is no
longer how things are done. This monster, the “Feminazi,”the thing that as
Trump says, “bleeds through her eyes or wherever she bleeds,” has conquered us
— and now, after having had to endure eight years of a black man telling us
what to do, we’re supposed to just sit back and take eight years of a woman
bossing us around? After that it’ll be eight years of the gays in the White
House! Then the transgenders! You can see where this is going. By then animals
will have been granted human rights and a fuckin’ hamster is going to be
running the country. This has to stop!
3. The Hillary Problem. Can we speak honestly, just
among ourselves? And before we do, let me state, I actually like Hillary - a
lot - and I think she has been given a bad rap she doesn’t deserve. But her
vote for the Iraq War made me promise her that I would never vote for her
again. To date, I haven’t broken that promise. For the sake of preventing a
proto-fascist from becoming our commander-in-chief, I’m breaking that promise.
I sadly believe Clinton will find a way to get us in some kind of military
action. She’s a hawk, to the right of Obama. But Trump’s psycho finger will be
on The Button, and that is that. Done and done.
Let’s
face it: Our biggest problem here isn’t Trump - it’s Hillary. She is hugely
unpopular — nearly 70% of all voters think she is untrustworthy and dishonest.
She represents the old way of politics, not really believing in anything other
than what can get you elected. That’s why she fights against gays getting
married one moment, and the next she’s officiating a gay marriage. Young women
are among her biggest detractors, which has to hurt considering it’s the
sacrifices and the battles that Hillary and other women of her generation
endured so that this younger generation would never have to be told by the
Barbara Bushes of the world that they should just shut up and go bake some
cookies. But the kids don’t like her, and not a day goes by that a millennial
doesn’t tell me they aren’t voting for her. No Democrat, and certainly no
independent, is waking up on November 8th excited to run out and vote for
Hillary the way they did the day Obama became president or when Bernie was on
the primary ballot. The enthusiasm just isn’t there. And because this election
is going to come down to just one thing — who drags the most people out of the
house and gets them to the polls — Trump right now is in the catbird seat.
4. The Depressed Sanders Vote.
Stop fretting about Bernie’s supporters not voting for Clinton - we’re voting
for Clinton! The polls already show that more Sanders voters will vote for
Hillary this year than the number of Hillary primary voters in ‘08 who then voted
for Obama. This is not the problem. The fire alarm that should be going off is
that while the average Bernie backer will drag him/herself to the polls that
day to somewhat reluctantly vote for Hillary, it will be what’s called a
“depressed vote” - meaning the voter doesn’t bring five people to vote with
her. He doesn’t volunteer 10 hours in the month leading up to the election. She
never talks in an excited voice when asked why she’s voting for Hillary. A
depressed voter. Because, when you’re young, you have zero tolerance for
phonies and BS. Returning to the Clinton/Bush era for them is like suddenly
having to pay for music, or using MySpace or carrying around one of those
big-ass portable phones. They’re not going to vote for Trump; some will vote third
party, but many will just stay home. Hillary Clinton is going to have to do
something to give them a reason to support her — and picking a moderate,
bland-o, middle of the road old white guy as her running mate is not the kind
of edgy move that tells millenials that their vote is important to Hillary.
Having two women on the ticket - that was an exciting idea. But then Hillary
got scared and has decided to play it safe. This is just one example of how she
is killing the youth vote.
5. The Jesse Ventura Effect. Finally, do not discount the electorate’s
ability to be mischievous or underestimate how any millions fancy themselves as
closet anarchists once they draw the curtain and are all alone in the voting
booth. It’s one of the few places left in society where there are no security
cameras, no listening devices, no spouses, no kids, no boss, no cops, there’s
not even a friggin’ time limit. You can take as long as you need in there and
no one can make you do anything. You can push the button and vote a straight
party line, or you can write in Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. There are no
rules. And because of that, and the anger that so many have toward a broken
political system, millions are going to vote for Trump not because they agree
with him, not because they like his bigotry or ego, but just because they can.
Just because it will upset the apple cart and make mommy and daddy mad. And in
the same way like when you’re standing on the edge of Niagara Falls and your
mind wonders for a moment what would that feel like to go over that thing, a
lot of people are going to love being in the position of puppetmaster and
plunking down for Trump just to see what that might look like. Remember back in
the ‘90s when the people of Minnesota elected a professional wrestler as their
governor? They didn’t do this because they’re stupid or thought that Jesse
Ventura was some sort of statesman or political intellectual. They did so just
because they could. Minnesota is one of the smartest states in the country. It
is also filled with people who have a dark sense of humor — and voting for
Ventura was their version of a good practical joke on a sick political system.
This is going to happen again with Trump.
Coming
back to the hotel after appearing on Bill Maher’s Republican Convention special
this week on HBO, a man stopped me. “Mike,” he said, “we have to vote for
Trump. We HAVE to shake things up.” That was it. That was enough for him. To
“shake things up.” President Trump would indeed do just that, and a good chunk
of the electorate would like to sit in the bleachers and watch that reality
show.
(Next
week I will post my thoughts on Trump’s Achilles Heel and how I think he can be
beat.)
Yours,
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
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