M
arch Antonio Campos he wrote ironically: Why don’t they change the people in the United States instead of the President?
Yes, the explanation for what happens there lies in society, rather than in its political elites. Disagreements, idiosyncrasies and ideologies developed over long periods of time, speeches by political actors, stampede into history and do their thing. The gringo media described a thousand aspects of the electoral struggle, but society is absent from their accounts. They told us about a cockfight between tied cocks: it was false. They told us that Trump won on the street; It is also false, let’s see in what sense.
When writing these lines the brilliant epic Never seen in history, it was already terrorizing the planet wholesale. Trump had 312 electoral votes (he needed 270), which ensured him the presidency; will dominate the Senate, he was missing seven votes to obtain the majority of the Representatives. And the Supreme Court is yours. Trump gained support across the electoral map in both Republican and Democratic states. The right-wingers further to the right will advance beyond the US.
Kamala and the Democrats dismissed the main discomfort of the majorities: the losses in their standard of living: the impact of inflation and the havoc on finances: now they save less than before the pandemic, or they are falling into default, more and more , both on car loans and credit cards, with iniquitous interest rates. In a hyper-consumer society, this data is amplified. It was the most important factor in the voters’ decisions. They think Trump will make their lives better: hold on. They also disdained the fable Trumpian about the hundreds of thousands of foreign murderers and rapists who take bread out of the mouths of their own. It is a real threat according to the perception of the majority.
The supreme victory of all time It is less than that of Biden, who obtained 81 million in 2020, compared to 74.6 million for Trump in 2024. The population grew by 7 million in the 2020/24 period, and the votes did not increase but decreased: 15 million less than in 2020 50.5 percent of the voters voted for Trump, and 48 for Harris: the voters are divided into two parts of similar size. Forty percent did not vote. Trump actually achieved 28 percent of the voters’ effective support. An unusual victory is very far from being true. The resounding defeat of Harris
it’s a lie trumpian.
All in all, given the electoral rules, Trump will have power within the institutions of the State that Clinton, or Obama, or Biden did not have. The repercussions around the world will be far-reaching. While NATO falters, Europe is already on alarm, looking for how to protect its home. Trump’s future decisions will be guided by the far-right Project 2025 formulated by the Heritage Foundation, an agenda for super-millionaires. The impact on the majorities will go in the opposite direction to the beliefs for which the majorities voted for Trump.
There will be Republicans in power for a long time, some US analysts predict; The next president will be Vice President JD Vance, from a more recalcitrant right than Trump, they say. It is possible, but the impact on the majorities also remains to be seen. Their standard of living declined under Biden, social inequality increased. Wage earners historically preferred the Democratic Party (PD) but, this time, they understandably voted Republican. The PD has long been the party of Wall Street and receives huge amounts of financing for its campaigns from bankers. For too long the Democratic Party has scurrilously called democracy
to neoliberalism.
Perhaps the time is coming for the left subsumed in the Democratic Party, and for the left who militate outside that party. It is the time of society, not that of the historical parties of the United States. Perhaps the conditions are being set to begin to dismantle the horrible precepts of neoliberalism, to destroy its perverse doctrine about the individual, its guideline according to which people are consumers and clients.
For Trump, it is time for corporations and the rich, who will see their taxes drastically reduced. For Trump, it is Elon Musk’s time that will see the billions of dollars in government contracts that Musk has received for SpaceX and Tesla, which helped make him the richest man in the world, expand. Musk has tried to stop Tesla workers from unionizing. The United Auto Workers union filed a complaint against Trump and Musk after the two spoke during a conversation on X about Musk’s intention to fire striking Tesla workers. It’s time for the Musks in a country where the percentage of unionized workers has fallen below 7 percent, levels not seen since 1932.
It is time for the desideratum of those below.
