The Man in The Mirror: How Democrats Lost The 2024 Election(s)

The art of the comeback

Just as I did in 2016, I predicted Donald Trump would "win" the presidency of the United States. I also predicted that the Republicans would take control of the house and senate in 2024. Just as I was scoffed at and pilloried in 2016, I have received similar treatment in 2024.

The aforesaid "predictions" were somewhere south of clairvoyance. In fact, any imbecile could have done so given a reasonable reality orientation. The intellectually vacant, incapable of literacy and critical thinking, surmise that my predictions are/were resultant of my being enamored with Trump but nothing could be further from the truth, as I loathe the cowardly amorphous mass of orange nothingness that is he and those like him.

Donald Trump won because he is a true reflection of what the United States is. He is a reflection in the spiritual and social mirror of the United States. The Republicans figuratively if not literally embrace and adore the grotesque, selfish, entitled, greedy, racist, obese, vile caricature that they see in that mirror while the Democrats would rather lie to themselves and say that isn't me. Ah but, verily, it is thee. Mirror, mirror on the wall...

Snow White.

The Arrogance of Democrats Led to Their Discreditation

I attempt to be a well informed dissident that calls balls and strikes. As a direct result of that cognitive, socio-intellectual debriefing and mental decolonization, I have no affinity for either political party. I have no more of an affinity for either political party than I do the United States because my knowledge precludes me from being psychotic. There is a reason why teaching those like me to read and write a foreign language after our kidnapping to The Island was punishable by death.

From a historic sociopolitical sense, should some fool challenge me, which they cannot and will not, I could spend days regaling them with political, legal, constitutional, economic, statistical and practical facts that verify that both Democrats and Republicans have denigrated and exploited those like me up to this very nanosecond. Further, that potential cross-examination would be inclusive of airtight, ironclad, hermetically-sealed, bulletproof evidence substantiating that the aforementioned institutionalized denigration and exploitation is unique. Specifically directed at those like me.

Some reading this treatise already have their knickers in a knot simply predicated upon the previous paragraph and the subtitle supra. This intellectual intolerance; and I mean intolerance, is why the Democrats were defeated. Republicans embrace intolerance for it is part and parcel to their political identity and proud stupidity. One must be cognizant that stupidity is not a negative amongst a stupid population; which makes it popular, as in populist. The aggregate U.S. citizen is poorly educated (if not miseducated), poorly read, poorly spoken and bordering on functional illiteracy.

How many of our relatives and associates can execute long division, name the three branches of their government or three of the nine supreme court justices? Ergo, they are ignorant and ignorance is main ingredient for stupidity. Both of which are required for unbounded domination.

Democrats, on the other hand, proselytize that they are the opposite of intolerance and all of its components. That is either subterfuge, illusion, delusion or a combination thereof which is proven by their exhortations and exclamations such as: “how did this happen?” and “is this who we really are?” The mere queries are more worrisome than the obvious reality. I cannot help but note that these very same questions are proffered after a mass shooting (a uniquely “American” phenomenon). A curious if not poetic intersection for introspection.

An Autopsy of Political Defeat

You are now a week into the wake (as in funeral) of Donald Trump’s election as the 47th president of what is known as the United States. Though I remain unsure as to whether it was an election, reelection, coronation or any fusion therefrom, I am most certain that political extortion was afoot. An expected rabbit-hole that I have expounded upon in the past and may well again in the near future, but not at the moment.

As I saw through the chest cavity to examine the heart and vital organs of the my Democrat cadaver, I am able to see indications of denialism. An anterior view also shows signs of a cancerous intolerance that has metastasized throughout the body. This is evidenced by showing hostility towards heterosexual men and demonizing them; especially Black Men in the United States. Name calling seems to have been the mechanism for this demonization. Words like homophobic and “toxic masculinity” employed and deployed to coerce them and “bring them to heel.” This was an unwise stratagem that alienated a good portion of their most reliable constituents.

I did caution the patient, many moons ago, that this behavior was akin to political cigarette smoking and quitting would prolong their life, but the patient chose not to make the lifestyle changes suggested. https://rohnkenyatta.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-milicons

The demise of the patient, in accordance with denialism, did not begin recently. It began 16 years ago with a pathology beginning in 2008 upon the election of Barack Obama. An unknown candidate that promised “hope and change” but delivered everything but that. However, his ethnicity was too irresistible in that it, at least temporarily, provided absolution from the reality of racism which is the bedrock of the society. It allowed the Democrats to appease themselves by saying “see we can’t be racists, look at our Negro in the White House.” “House Negro,” indeed.

In the end, Barack Obama may have provided hope for a time but absolutely no change. He escalated wars in Syria and Afghanistan. He killed the president of Alkebulan’s most progressive and affluent country descending the nation into chaos. He presided over a historic economic meltdown that ruined hundreds of thousands of families (many that looked like his own) which is, at least in part, why he was proffered as a candidate in the first place. Mass incarceration increased and literacy decreased (if that is possible). His only accomplishment of any substance was something known as ObamaCare, or the ACA, and that was marginal at best, especially when juxtaposed with the rhetoric of the platform.

Obama left office in 2016 after two terms. But hope springs eternal and the Democrats finally came up with a candidate that was a known quantity. A U.S. Senator from Vermont named Bernie Sanders. A candidate that was the only candidate that could have eliminated Trump from the historical record by defeating him. A candidate that bridged every conceivable demographic gap imaginable; young people, old people, the educated the non-educated, the rich, the poor and every ethnic group in the United States.

A candidate that inspired even me as a political dissident and agnostic that held rallies with lines around city blocks. A candidate that Trump feared. Problem was, so did his own party…the Democrats. And resultant of that fear, they screwed him for the entitled establishment candidate. So, in effect, the Democrats assisted in electing Trump in 2016. Once again the erosion of the body electorate and a demoralization of the faithful.

Almost immediately, upon Trump’s taking office, the Democrats went after him (and I am not suggesting they should not have). He was impeached an unprecedented two times in a single term and acquitted both times. He was allegedly a Russian asset and colluded with Russian “election interference,” but the DOJ could neither prove nor prosecute the assertion. In fact, the Special counsel concluded “no collusion.” He was convicted on dozens of crimes and civil liabilities, yet the Democrats could not dispense one iota of justice. Contraire, contraire. He is now your president…again. What does the implied editorial say about both the party and the society?

“Trump is going to jail!” Oh, the arrogant exuberance was as palpable as it was delusional, silly, stupid and uniformed. I told the patient this a year and a half ago. Not only did the patient fail to listen (once again) I was scoffed at and rebuked by the patient even though I was attempting to keep the patient alive by warning them of the dangers of sociopolitical masturbation. https://rohnkenyatta.substack.com/p/stop-with-the-sociopolitical-masturbation

In what will go down as one of the weirdest elections in world history, to put it mildly, Trump was defeated in 2020 by Joseph Biden. The Democrats, once again, promised what they could not deliver. They were given the keys to the car riding on two main issues: police reform in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd (an incessant phenomena peculiar to Black People in the United States) and student debt forgiveness and substantive change. Oddly enough, my baby-girl was a junior in undergraduate school that year; a tough year for us both. The Democrats failed miserably on both.

No police reform and I am still in student loan debt; let alone medical debt from the non-existent Obama/Democrat healthcare promises. In fact, under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris police killings of Black People in the United States have increased and I find the silence on the issue troubling but unsurprising. What happened to the slogan (because that is all it was) of “Black Lives Matter?” What happened to the demonstrations and protests? The silence is deafening. If the Democrats were any more full of shit they would float and that is the message sent in 2024.

Like it, or not.

Then, good grief, in 2024, the Democrats kick Joe Biden to the curb (and Joe was in bad shape a long time before that) and install a candidate that couldn’t even make it through the first primary as a candidate in 2020. An inferior candidate that did not receive a single vote, whatever flavor, and had a mere four months to mount a presidential campaign. One of these days I might tell you why I think this was intentional political sabotage. Perhaps.

Finally, we come to a week ago and Donald Trump wins in a landslide, winning both the electoral college vote and the popular vote, something that has become quite rare for a Republican candidate to do since the turn of the century. He not only won in a landslide, the Republicans took control of the U.S. Senate. Though undetermined at the moment, they will take control of the house and they have a 6-3 majority in the United States Supreme Court that may, quite possibly, become a 7-2 majority before all is said and done.

I have said it a million times if I have said it once, racism, especially Anti-Blackism, is the sexiest thing in US (more specifically, y’all) politics. From the Civil War, to Willie Horton, to “Super-predators,” to predators beyond “the pale" and Black People eating cats and dogs it is the most reliable default in the white supremacist political playbook; and it always will be. Donald Trump understands this, they all do.

When I mentioned the stark fact that racism always “trumps” everything in U.S politics to a European-American that I have high regard for a few days ago, he clearly took umbrage and said (in a gotcha kind of way) “then how do you explain Joe Biden’s win in 2020?” For any number of reasons I did not answer the question because it would have been inappropriate for me to tell him that Joe Biden is one of the most racist bastards in politics. An irrefutable fact evidenced by his legislative record, political rhetoric and a long history of being so up to, but not limited by, his eulogizing an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan.

If Trump’s resounding victory were not enough, in addition to congressional victories, Republicans won eight of 11 gubernatorial races, giving them control of 27 governorships nationwide. Though that is no overall change in the gubernatorial aggregate, it does send a message. Further, “progressive” district attorneys were trounced in venues across the country riding the “law and order” red wave. Here in Los Angeles, District Attorney George Gascon was obliterated…in Los Angeles County; the most populated county in the United States

California voters, and be mindful I am just talking about California, overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36. Proposition 36’s passage made 10 months of bargaining and wrangling at the state Capitol meaningless where Democratic leaders unsuccessfully sought to preserve a decade of criminal justice reform. “Law and Order” is a racist dog whistle that, once again, is a tried and true stratagem that I warned my Democrat patient of…a year and a half ago. https://rohnkenyatta.substack.com/p/copxtortion

California Proposition 33, which would have curtailed excessive rents, was crushed. Thanks to a campaign led by the California Apartment Association, voters vetoed a statewide proposition that would have brought extreme rent control policies back to California. 61.4% of voters opposed the measure, while 38.6% supported it. The average price for a decent two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles is around $2,955 per month or approximately $36,000 a year. Just for rent.

The Shape of Things To Come

The Democrats intolerance killed them. Tolerance means being able to respect the feelings and opinions of others (as long as they are well founded) without calling them names and ostracizing your own constituents. While, at the same time, being skilled, sensitive and tolerant enough to amalgamate them under a common big-tent. Just because I am not supportive of something does not mean I am against it. I don’t support Pickleball, but I am not against it. And that, is where the Democrats screwed completely up, in my opinion.

The hand wringing has begun (and for good reason) with premonitions of how bad things will be in a Trump administration and I absolutely can inform you that it will likely be a lot worse than even you think it will be. However, check yourself and realize that things will not “get bad” because of Trump, Trump exists because things are so bad. Eyes wide shut will do one in each and every time.

In conclusion, you not only have Trump, you have a different Trump. One that is not only craven, stupid, petulant, vindictive and vulgar, but angry. He now has every governmental tool available to execute and vent that anger and his designated transition personnel tell the tale. Instead of just stupid Trump, you now have stupid and angry Trump.

What I am perplexed by, especially given the superior intellect of European-Americans, is how an idiot like me could see what they could not. In fact, a week after Joe Biden’s State Of The Union address this year, I had such utter confidence of what just took place I wrote a vicarious State Of The Union for 2025. An ancient Alkebulanian proverb says: The hunter is always the victor, until the lion tells the tale.

Instead of MAGA, perhaps it should be MASA, Massa.

Make America Stupid Again.