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This is what people voted for - isn't it? • Sam North Making sense of the euphoria

As autumn leaves fall - we need to reflect on how Trump came back and conquered all before him. Maybe there was a reluctance to vote for a woman, certainly Fox News did its best to denigrate Harris, as did Trump and Vance themselves. It's a fact that Trump won the popular vote as well, which you wouldn't have credited the day before the election. Turns out that women didn't turn out for Harris when many thought this was a slam dunk given the abortion issue. There will be many other reasons for her loss but this little note is not about the loser, it's about the winner and the consequences.

How many Trump voters read Project 25 do you imagine. 1% or less? How many actually read RFK’s plans to abolish vaccines, gut Medicare, and remove fluoride from drinking water, which protect teeth. How many heeded Trump’s promises to reduce eligibility to medical care and make it more expensive, eliminate the Department of Education and essentially put Musk and Ramaswamy (of all people who campaigned on firing 75 percent of the Federal workforce) in charge of firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers, eliminate the EPA, even the Forestry Department and certainly all environmental protections? 1.65 million layoffs in the first year is promised. And Matt Gaetz with real power to prosecute Trump's enemies - I suggest you start running. This will be four years of vengeance and retribution. And with Putin's agent Tulsi Gabbard in the mix I don't fancy the world's chances either.

I’m sure that they believed his promises to close the border and start mass deportations of eleven million illegals (who it turns out pick and process a lot of those crops everyone complains cost too much).  I’m pretty sure that they will welcome this sacrifice when one of their kids gets sick and suddenly the safety nets are no longer there and you can’t complain to anyone, as guess what, all the government workers have been fired.

They also voted for Trump’s deeply deprived rich friends in the oil industry (oil man Doug Burgum will be the Interior Secrtary) and Elon Musk to get huge tax cuts so they can buy more McMansions and more private security. In fact, they voted for the opportunity to become those security guards, as these might be the only jobs available by 2026 (along with all the armed guards you'll need to round-up and escort 11 million illegals to the 'Trump Camps' in Texas).

Trump is one of the few politicians that likes to keep his promises. So all those tariffs he’s promised will make everything you buy more expensive. Trump says buy American, but first you’d have to build those factories to make those fridges and washing machines and then find workers fit enough to deliver them. 

There will be retaliations from Europe and China to these tariffs and it might be a lot harder for Boeing to sell their jets overseas. Trump claims tariffs will bring so much revenue in it will essentially eliminate income tax.  But it’s extremely likely that as tax cuts materialise and government revenue decreases, the federal deficit will exponentially increase and interest rates will have to rise along with mortgage rates.  The clue is in the Bond market reaction.

Of course he’s going to roll back or eliminate the ‘green agenda’ but all the auto manufacturers are still trying to sell electric cars which no one can afford.  Oddly enough Musk makes electric cars - will he appreciate it when GM goes back to gas powered vehicles, which cost half and go twice as far on a full tank? Does ending the $7,500 discount on electric cars favour Musk? I can't see how.

Trump has also promised to end the war in Ukraine in Putin’s favour and is unlikely defend Taiwan if attacked by China. America First will reassert itself and NATO may well be affected. Europe will have to increase their defence budget hugely if America leaves NATO. The German government is in danger of collapse because the defence minister has refused to invest in defence. Not a good sign.

I suspect this euphoric moment in Trump’s victory will fade fast once Trump is sworn in and he begins his retribution against all his enemies, then rules unchecked by a tame Senate and even tamer House.

Project 2025 explained

© Sam North 11.15.24
Editor
author of Another Place to Die:Endtime Chronicles

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