by Oliver Wilson
Nov. 12, 2024

Maybe you still just don’t get it. Trump won every swing state, every ethnicity voted in higher margins, and Illinois shifted 10 POINTS to the right this year. Many are unsure of how this could have happened, but I’m not here to gloat about the win. I’m not here to brag. I’m not here to shove it in your face, but we need to recognize that this change in national sentiment against an unpopular candidate for what the MSM wanted you to believe is an even more unpopular one is some form of national revival that can be attributed only to the failings in the message of the democratic party. Kamala was better funded, and the polls all skewed in her favor, but a silent awakening was happening, and most were ignorant of it.

The truth is that the left has rejected most Americans. It has rejected me, my friends, and the youth while leaving even its own political base when unable to deliver on its promises of unity, cohesion, higher standards of living, and peace.

From personal experience, I’ve found the hypocrisy in the liberal message enough to drive any reasonable person to indifference. At my school, 91.6% of students voted for Kamala in a mock election, while only 6% supported Trump. In such an echo chamber, you might imagine the challenges I faced. You also might expect this would result in simple childish comments or silly remarks about my opinions. But what I experienced went well beyond that. People are confused as to why I made this website, but I’m not: in the face of my free speech and fiscal views alone, pictures of my house and address were shamelessly disseminated by a transgender student in a photojournalism class, even in the presence of teachers. In the hallways, I’ve overheard people making vile threats about my family, like swearing to ”rape his mother,” uttered casually among unfazed peers. This person held their life against me, threatening to hurt themself if I didn’t take this website down because they felt threatened by an article I had written about the importance of free speech; it’s still there if you want to check it out. And just yesterday, I was told to ”fuck myself” by another student in journalism. Yet, the left has consistently claimed to be the party of diversity and tolerance. It’s ironic, especially because some of the worst comes from students in journalism who admire the mainstream media, and I can’t help but feel that I, as well as many other young people in the nation, are sick and tired of it.

a significant part of the struggle in this election was the frustration people have with the left’s war on identity, hypocrisy, and their campaign of lies. This includes the left’s criticism of Donald Trump as a ‘threat to democracy’ and their exploitation of a false narrative about the right’s plan for an ‘imminent revocation of rights.’

The left has preached ‘inclusion’ for longer than most can remember, yet reveals its disgusting bias in its intolerance of me and my friends. Their campaign on ‘inclusion’ in identity politics has alienated well-reasoned people by doing the exact opposite. The left declares those who are not precisely aligned ‘racist’ and ‘bigoted,’ an ironically non-inclusive mindset. The left’s identity politics have pitted people against each other, explaining why liberals have such a visceral reaction to my existence and why trans students felt embraced to voice their fear of a website that has nothing to do with them. Other instances when students’ ideologies were demonized include treachery by teachers who perceive themselves to be utilitarian. Teachers have skewed my grade because of a conservative opinion. One friend shared with me that their college counselor proudly declared their relief upon finding out my friend was not conservative. But in addition to the polarization of political ideology, identity politics have divided people by race, too. A kind of societal quasi-point system has been initiated to determine how ”privileged” one is, and I’ll be frank: being a white man hurts your score-a lot. 
Hence, the left has alienated white men who are just trying to live and balance things like their economic well-being in the voting booth. With the proposal of policies such as reparations and their claim to the moral high ground, as a white man, the left ensures we are either meant to feel sorry for our existence, or else we are morally reprehensible.

Whites and men are fed up with being demonized, and every other demographic is fed up with being lied to. There have been so many flawed and dishonest attempts by the left to win over the American people unfairly: they claimed they would save the people from Trump, who would revoke women’s rights, but then not changing a THING over the last four years to reinstate Roe v Wade. They lied that the border was first secure and then admitted it was not secure, but did not hold Kamala accountable by instead blaming the problem on Trump. They lied about their economic policies, laughing in the face of working people who have suffered the consequences of their inflation over the last four years, but shill it off as corporate greed…how spooky. They fiercely gaslit the people about Biden’s mental health. They sheepishly insisted that Biden was okay, until everyone could see that he was not. With these listed examples and countless others, the left’s credibility had reached an all-time low. So, when the same people screamed that Donald Trump would ”steal democracy,” it made the people’s choice to vote for him even easier. However, threats are just threats, and none of the things they swore would take place under a Trump presidency in 2016 happened. Ultimately, lying has consequences. This election marked the first time a Republican won the popular vote in 20 years, and the most notable shift was among Gen Z-once considered the left’s stronghold and supposed ”brat army.” This surge in support can be attributed to a widespread exhaustion with hypocritical identity politics. Young people are tired of division, economic struggles, and being labeled as evil. They wanted change, and I am confident Donald Trump will bring that change.