Donald Trump’s resounding success in the US elections has reinforced the political and journalistic elites’ deficient understanding of public attitudes in the post-pandemic world order. On top was the end of the fixation to involve America in global disputes to preserve and perpetuate its hegemony. For the less well-heeled Americans, this was unnecessary spending, compounding their immediate economic challenges.
The emergence of a consensus for an inward-looking political philosophy among a cross-section of voters lent Trump a trope to present himself as the ‘peace candidate’ and gain wider currency for his “America first, Americans first” message. This destroyed the social coalition the Democrats painstakingly assembled in the 2020 elections. According to a New York Times analysis, counties that were strongholds of the Democrats in 2020 witnessed a drop of 1.9 million votes for Harris.
This shifting allegiance helped Trump win over 75 million votes against Harris’ 71.8 million—this is the second time any Republican candidate has won the popular vote since 1988—and clinch 312 of 538 votes in the electoral college.
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