[marcuskane2]

Honestly, after a brief bit of despair, I took a hard look at what Trump supporters were saying and particularly the priorities and beliefs of people in the demographics that shifted in his favor and I think there's a clear path to Democrat victories in the future.

This election shouldn't be understood as some sort of "the oligarchs won", but rather that the American voters have signaled that they're "anti-woke" to the point that they can tolerate many other flaws in a candidate.

The social-progressive faction of the Democrats was too loud, too aggressive and too influential and alienated too many average Americans. The average Trump supporter wasn't voting for him because they were MAGA diehards, they just didn't want their kids' school to have drag queen story hour and they didn't want to be called racists every time Twitter users decided a new word was "problematic".

In four years, Trump will have done terrible damage to the country and world, but the 2028 election can be a landslide victory for the Democrats if they focus on housing, healthcare, childcare, education, environment and economy instead of race and gender.

Basically, it's bad, but it's temporary and fixable.

[Rapzid]

The average voter doesn't spend their days thinking about woke. That's chronically online behavior.

The top issues voters mentioned and has been correlated with voting behavior this round was the economy.

[Sol2Sol]

He also easily brushed aside the Republican contenders during the primaries so I think it is a bit more than voters can't stand woke democrat policies.

All of the character issues were raised and known during the Republican primaries and they still selected him as their candidate.

[yawpitch]

> but the 2028 election

Ahh, to still have the kind of sweet, sweet naïveté that would lead me to believe there will be a 2028 election.

[xenospn]

There will be one, but not everyone will get to take part. Russian model.

[xenospn]

Are there people who voted for Obama and then decided to vote for Trump because of “woke”?

To me, it sounds like going to a restaurant and not really seeing anything you like on the menu, so instead of getting something kind of “meh”, you decide to go to the bathroom and drink out of the toilet.