Why He Won

Why did Donald Trump win a second term as President? I believe that the answer is fairly straightforward: rank and file Americans are tired of being lectured to by people who claim to be for diversity, tolerance, and inclusion yet will not include them. It's an attitude, an arrogance, which speaks volumes.

The argument against biological men playing biological women in sports is a rational opinion to hold. Being against DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) does not make me a racist or misogynist. Asserting that a unique human being is formed at the moment of conception is an argument which at least deserves vetting by the body politic. Asking immigrants to come in through the front door is eminently reasonable. Getting scolded rather than engaged when I disagree becomes tiresome if not downright infuriating. Convince me on reasonable grounds that you're right and we may be on the road to understanding. Wave a finger at me? That approach is just all wrong. Even some liberal wags are beginning to get it.

Sure, Trump is a basket of contradictions himself. He's a walking PR nightmare, quite frankly. I can't fully understand his appeal and will not begin to defend everything he's said or done. His personal life is, well, problematic. He's pompous. He's a braggart, he's self absorbed. Yet one thing he does not do is wag a finger at basic conservative beliefs. He has vowed to defend them against a relentless culture who's basic argument against us is that we're just wrong, and too stupid to realize it.

As we have no option but to deal with imperfect human beings in elections, we have to look at candidates as sum totals. In a center-right nation such as these United States, the totality of Donald Trump beats the totality of Kamala Harris. Most people saw that. And that is why he won, writ simple.