We are now more than a week from election day, Nov. 5, 2024.
The final results are (almost all) in – Republican Donald Trump won the presidency, the GOP picked up the U.S. Senate, and barely held the U.S. House (still not done counting; thanks, California).
As I have read on both MSM and conservative websites, the political observers of all persuasions are debating, endlessly, about the causes of this election result. These people have a lot of ideas, some very silly – racism, sexism, Hitler! – and some more logical and reasonable.
Let me add in my two cents. To paraphrase this guy, the 2024 election results showed that the problem was “the economy, and the chaos, stupid!” and that the swing voters wanted a return to prior good (economic and other) times.
Every election has a main theme, and this is the main theme of 2024. And the reason that…
