Trump support soars as Obama’s mystique evaporates

[Brent]

This was written by Victor Davis Hanson.

The Democrats told voters what they as the elites want. Trump listened and responded to what voters actually want.

Former president Barack Obama had long been rumoured as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years.

The Obamaites got their wish for four years of enacted hard-left directives they could only have dreamed of while in actual power.

But their radical menu since 2021 had divided and nearly wrecked the nation — hyperinflation, 12 million illegal aliens, a ruined border, spiralling crime, a shattered foreign policy of appeasement, the popular backlash against DEI/Woke/trans chauvinism, partisan lawfare and weaponization of the government.

And the ruling radicalism beneath the Biden facade eventually cost the Democrats nearly everything — the presidency, the House and the Senate.

An inert Biden is departing office with a 36% favourability rating in a recent Emerson poll. His Democratic nominee replacement, losing presidential candidate Vice President Harris, has also virtually vacated her office with 40 days left of her tenure.

Staffers and donors have roundly faulted failed candidate Harris for blowing through some $2 billion in assorted 2024 campaign money. She ended up doing worse against Trump than Biden had in 2020.

Many Democrats believe they might have done just as well had Biden stayed on the ticket even in his vastly diminished state.

Obama emerged from his comfortable retirement to hit the 2024 campaign trail, schooling the country that president-emeritus Donald Trump was a dictator, a fascist, a tyrant and, of course, a "racist."

The more Trump polled even with, or ahead of, Kamala Harris, the more an exasperated and ignored Obama talked down to supposedly low-information voters.

By the time Harris lost the election, voters had tuned out a nagging and patronizing Obama.

The Democratic campaign and Trump electoral college and popular vote victories, combined with record defections of Hispanic and African-American voters from the Democratic Party, proved a resounding rejection of the Obama legacy and his surrogates' left-wing visions.

After the people spoke in the election, Obama whined that democracy had failed him. Voters who disagreed with him were written off as racist and sexist.

Obama again harped that constituents did not know what was good for them.

And then, the disappointed former community organizer suddenly disappeared,  pondering to which of his own four mansions his private jet would fly him home to commiserate.

[Prof Emeritus at Fawk U]

As long as the Dems continue to kowtow to elites that think they know what is best for the country, they'll keep losing.