The legacy media lied to you
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 8, 2024

David Samuels postmortems the election from his own interesting, certainly not completely wrong, perspective.

The Clintons’ embrace of Wall Street and of international trade treaties was the window through which America’s old elites — rooted both in the Northeast as well as in San Francisco — climbed back into history. The China trade flourished, as did Democratic Party’s new Wall Street clients — at the expense of the Party’s traditional working-and-middle class constituencies. Obama brought Silicon Valley’s formerly libertarian-oriented founders on board the gravy train by promising them protection from populists like Bernie Sanders and from his own crew of high-end Chicago shakedown artists. In return, they would pay taxes to the party through campaign and NGO contributions and DEI hiring. Through this new political wiring, Obama completed the transformation of FDR’s Democrats into Gilded Age Republicans.

It will be hard for Donald Trump to top that. But maybe he will. Maybe Elon Musk will entirely revamp the Federal government. Maybe he will actually colonise Mars. Meanwhile, if Trump understands one thing, it’s that America is not Europe, or Asia, or Iraq, or Brazil. American elites come and go, while the capacity for sudden, radical, wide-eyed self-invention and leaps of innovation remain the country’s defining trait.

What outsiders tend to miss is that America was never meant to be stable. It is and has always been an inferno, the epitome of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter’s idea of creative destruction. The wonder and freedom and heartbreak of American life is that, sooner or later, everything is consumed in the furnace. For all his wealth and success, Elon Musk’s children may worship other gods. His grandchildren may end up in a trailer park, smoking meth. McKinsey consultants with Harvard degrees may wind up unemployed or selling bottled war. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the country’s most eminent environmental lawyer and the closest thing the Democratic Party has to royalty, may become an antivaccine heretic, be broadly mocked and humiliated by the elite and by the less imaginative members of his own family, run for President, endorse Donald Trump, take on the Big Pharma and Big Ag, and Make America Healthy Again. Or not. All anyone can say for sure is that attempts to game the American system are doomed to failure.

The bigger lesson being that America is just too big — and too wild, and too destructive, and rooted in the idea of individual freedom — for any self-styled “elite” to ride the horse for very long, without being thrown off.

HT: Frank Dobbs.

RTWT

I find it amazing that such a small geographic portion of the country can produce 48% of the total votes.

Liberal wants Trump supporters to be branded in public to warn others

Where have we seen this before….

These are the people who called us fascists and a threat to Democracy pic.twitter.com/FRCNWSV4Tj

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 7, 2024

I find being described as being “like dynamite waiting to go off in your hand” very nice.

Democrat political analyst brags about Kamala’s huge win coming, buys champagne on Election Day and mocks Trump supporter selling it to her at liquor store. This is glorious, watch it. Trust me: pic.twitter.com/FYeXpcoFld

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) November 7, 2024

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I kept a few screenshots of self-owns that I reserved just for today.

This is one of my favorites pic.twitter.com/QnxMUlD7B2

— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) November 6, 2024

For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.

Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.

1. Americans love their country and want it to be…

— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) November 6, 2024

Best of Leftist Trump Victory Meltdownshttps://t.co/qcrWR6BEGQ pic.twitter.com/dYI4QizVYi

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) November 6, 2024

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Above all I would advise people against posting expressions and videos of their personal anguish over the election, there is a substantial number of people here who use this as masturbation material

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 6, 2024

Joe Biden got twenty million or so more votes than Kamala.

Those people just vanished.

I'm worried that I missed The Rapture.

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) November 6, 2024

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but can we go back to what happened here? pic.twitter.com/FkScNHivuU

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 6, 2024

After Trump gave his victory speech, this began to ring out….
(They were all at the right rally!) pic.twitter.com/VuR9YxlPiS

— David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) November 6, 2024