Even before he's sworn in next week, Donald Trump has pulled off one of the most incredible comebacks in American political history.

In the span of four years, he went from being universally banned from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, Snapchat, Instagram, Shopify, Reddit, Twitch, TikTok, and Pinterest to having most of these companies donate to his inauguration celebration while they ’s CEO clamored to invite him to dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

I predict that long after everyone reading this today has moved on, Trump’s 2024 election will still be viewed as an epochal event in American history.
But that is for future historians to decide.

For now, Trump did something more compelling than orchestrating a landslide reversal of 312 electoral votes that will be talked about for generations. His landmark presidential victory in 2024 accomplished something that Trump's most ardent critics never believed - he won the least racially polarizing presidential victory since before the civil rights movement.

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Let me repeat that because this is a stunning and monumental achievement - Trump winning the presidential election in 2024 with the least racial polarization since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 Presidential election victory.

That is, white, black, Asian and Hispanic voters are voting with less racial division than at almost any time in the lifetime of anyone reading this column today.

Yes, unless you were born in 1946 or earlier, you have never voted in a presidential election where racial divisions were less severe and the voting habits of Americans of all colors were more similar.

Unlike Ronald Reagan in 1984, and unlike Barack Obama in 2008, a Trump victory in 2024 would make the race closer than any election in 60 years.

Shouldn’t this fact be everywhere?

Surprisingly, however, I bet many of you haven't heard or read any discussion of this at all.

That’s because there’s often a lot more money to be made by dividing us than by celebrating how similar we are.

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In fact, Trump's popular-vote coalition may be the most striking achievement of his entire political career, and it provides an incredible moment of optimism for those of us accustomed to constant animosity and division.

As Hispanic, Asian and Black support surges, Trump flips all 50 states red, wins all 7 battleground states, and fuels the cancer of identity politics that so much of our country hopes to The root causes of hatred and division once and for all.

How did this happen? How did the most active man in traditional media spend nine years attacking the American version of Adolf Hitler, managing to bring so many different people from so many different ethnic backgrounds into his alliance?

I think the answer is simple: Many people of all races come to see the lies that traditional media tells them. Many of these voters not only voted for Trump, they specifically voted against those who brought us the Charlottesville hoax and truth review during the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump’s victory was a statement of support for free speech and the marketplace of ideas.

Of course, it's also an overwhelming rejection of President Biden's economic policies, our widely open borders, the rise in violent crime, and clemency for violent offenders.

As I have said for some time, this is an EBC election, economy, border and crime issue.

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Everyone, regardless of race, cares about pocketbooks, the rule of law, and locking up violent criminals.

How else to explain the sharp increase in Trump’s voting support? Remember, Trump won the 2016 election with 65.8 million votes. By 2024, he will have received 77.3 million votes. So, over a nine-year period when the legacy media relentlessly attacked him and claimed he was Hitler, Trump received about 12 million votes.

Where do most of these votes come from?

The data tells us – minorities and young people.

Consider that Joe Biden won black voters by 83 percentage points in 2020, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing AP polling data. By 2024, Kamala beat Trump by just 67 percentage points among black voters. A net 16% of black voters switched to Trump, a dramatic shift in a short period of time.

Hispanic voters also strongly supported Trump.

In 2020, Joe Biden won Hispanic voters by 28 points. By 2024, Kamala's advantage was only 14, giving Trump a net win of 14 points.

After 2020, Trump’s margins fell sharply, especially among Latinos and Northeastern urban residents

Support among Asian voters has similarly jumped 27 points from Biden to Kamala in 2024, according to Edison Research. percentage points, Trump’s net approval rating increased by 12 percentage points.

Trump's double-digit gains among black, Hispanic and Asian voters have been a political earthquake in an election where the two sides have often fought for a point or two.

Where do these gains for Trump come from? Young people aged 18 to 29 voted for him by a whopping 14 percentage points. That's a huge win for Trump by any measure, but it's even more staggering when you consider that Biden won 18-29 men by 15 points in 2020 Shocked. As a result, young people have swung 29 points toward Trump in just four years.

To consider this further, by 2024, the two most conservative voting groups by age in the United States are men 65 and older and men 18-29 — both of which support Trump by more than 14%.

How to explain this sudden agreement between older and younger men? Especially since older men tend to be much less racially diverse than younger men?

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Quite simply, young people of all races overwhelmingly reject woke culture and vote in similar directions across racial lines.

In other words, the era of identity politics, especially among young people, is over.
They recognize better than most the lies they have been fed.

In fact, data shows that young men aged 14-17, the next age group eligible to vote in 2028, are even more conservative than their older brothers. If Republicans run a strong campaign in 2028 and deliver on their economic promises, their support among these voters is bound to improve.

There’s been a lot of discussion about how the surge in support among young men happened — the Trump campaign’s focus on male-centric podcasts and sports, for example — but less about what it means for race in America What polarization means is that everything falls apart.

Racial demagogues who constantly try to divide us based on the color of our skin are losing in the marketplace of ideas.

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Americans of all races reject their arguments and divisive tactics.
We are finally getting closer to Martin Luther King’s dream of a free and equal society without racial restrictions.

I could write a book about the seismic impact of this election—and perhaps, I should, but that’s for the future.

Now, as Trump prepares for his inauguration on January 20, I want all Americans, regardless of race, to know that it has been three generations since the racial divide was no longer so stark in a U.S. presidential election. politics.

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So as the inauguration approaches, I'm very optimistic about what Trump will accomplish for all of us, but even more appalled by what he's already done - making races farther apart than we have been in three generations The distance between people is closer.

This doesn't mean America is perfect, but it does suggest that we are continuing to form a more perfect union in which we can all be judged by the content of our character rather than the color of our skin.

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