by Bill Wilson
The recent presidential election served as one of the strongest rejections of the globalist political regime advanced by the ruling elites in recent history. President Donald Trump’s sweeping victory against regime pick Kamala Harris was achieved through a coalition of working-class Americans that transcended race and gender and began to melt the rural-urban divide.
Trump’s victory united Americans around a populist, America First economic message, and created a unified working-class. From cities to small towns, Americans have vehemently rejected the draconian globalist agenda of endless war, open borders, and cheap foreign labor.
According to data from AP VoteCast, Democrats’ share of the non-college vote fell from 47 percent in 2020 – already well below what they earned in previous elections – to just 43 percent this year. On the other end of the spectrum, Harris performed well with college educated voters, earning 56 percent of their vote.
When broken down by income, Democrats’ share of the working-class vote dwindled further. Harris suffered a six-point decline among Americans making under $50,000 per year compared to Biden in 2020. She won close to what Biden did among Americans grossing over $100,000 a year, losing a single percentage point.
Working-class minorities appear to represent the largest decline for Harris, since the white working class was already halfway out the door by the 2020 election. The data shows that Harris lost three points with working-class whites compared to Biden, netting just over one-third of the white working class.
However, Harris suffered a steep decline compared to Biden among working-class minorities. Harris secured just 65 percent of minority working-class voters; an eight-point decline compared to Biden’s 73 percent four years ago.
The 2024 election was truly a testament to how out of touch the political ruling class has been for years. Long before President Joe Biden was unceremoniously shuttled aside and replaced with Kamala Harris, polling indicated steep declines in support for the Democrat regime among minorities, young people, and independents.
In May, we noted that Biden’s dwindling coalition appeared to consist almost exclusively of older white wealthy liberals who center abortion, and that Biden was hemorrhaging support virtually everywhere else. New York Times/Siena College data from this spring analyzing Biden loyalists compared to defectors found Americans deserting Biden were younger, more diverse, and more economically driven.
Once Kamala Harris became the nominee, buoyed by Wall Street interests and a political inner circle dead-set on elevating her to the highest executive role in the country, the numbers only got worse among working-class and minority voters.
The Democrat Party is increasingly becoming the party of “old rich white people”, which as demographic destiny theorists projected, is unsustainable long-term. The demographic destiny projection that incoming minorities and young people would upset the political order was correct, but it appears to be Democrats who are paying the price because they abandoned the working class in favor of pet projects and globalist policies that line their own pockets.
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Bill Wilson is the former president of Americans for Limited Government.
Photo “Donald Trump in Hi-Viz” by Dan Scavino / Team Trump.
