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THE VIEW FROM HERE - Whenever a political party wins an election, it thinks that its policies won. In fact, their policies seldom win; but rather the other side lost. That was true on November 5, 2025, where Dems believe that they won, but in reality, Donald Trump lost from one end of the country to the other – from California’s Prop 50 to New York’s City electing an anti-Semite for mayor. A centrist review of election history shows that parties do not win elections; rather the others side lost the election.
2016 Hillary lost due to her Wokeism. In addition to having her November 6th pre-election Woke coronation bash, Hillary’s calling White voters in the Rust Belt, “a basket of deplorables,” propelled White voters to rush out and vote for Trump.
2020 Trump lost because people were tired of his MAGA shenanigans.
2024 Biden, er Harris, lost because the nation hated Woke DEI. See Americans Hate Wokeism
2025 California Dems did not win with Prop 50. It was successful as it was a direct repudiation of Trump’s demanding that Texas gerrymander Texas Congressional districts to wipe out minority (“democrat”) districts so that Trump would have five (5) more GOP Congressional seats. Donald Trump lost the 2025 elections from coast to coast thanks to Stephen Miller’s raging anti-immigrant racism and Trump’s attacks on “affordability” including Trump’s bizarre belief in tariffs. Americans pay the tariffs, not the countries of origin. The Supreme Court reminded Trump of that fact, but once again, he failed to comprehend. After the election when asked about the role of affordability in the GOP losses, Trump stuck to his pre-election delusion that everyone was doing better by exclaiming, “I do want to hear about affordability.”
Furthermore, no one in the GOP moderates, The Center, and to the Left supports Trump’s blowing up innocent people in speed boats in the Caribbean Sea. BTW, those speed boats are not capable of making it across the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico to the USA. As everyone except Trump knows, Fentanyl does not come via Venezuela.
Trump’s non-stop lies again verified that he is an ignoramus, e.g., he thinks the Gaza War is 3,000 years old and that Communism is 1,000 years old. While Woke DEI is a lethal threat to America, Trump’s absurd approach to combating Woke DEI is worse than DEI itself. Taking billions of dollars away from medical research will not reduce DEI. Trump’s hiring grossly incompetent cabinet members like Pig Hegseth and anti-vaxer and anti-Tylenol lunatic JFK, Jr is Right Wing DEI. Trump had his lackeys shut down the government – the majority of Americans know who demanded the government be shut down and who stopped SNAP food going to children. Trump had demanded One Big Beautiful Bill over the advice of his own party because of Trump’s desire to destroy Obamacare. Trump harbors a pathological hatred of everything Obama. Trump began his first term by doctoring the photo of his inaugural to support his delusional claim that his crowd was larger than Obama’s. This time it was his One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) which attacked Obamacare and Medicaid. Rational thinks in GOP leadership opposed the OBBB knowing that it would bring united opposition including from Red state voters, but Trump demanded, threatening to have any dissenter primaried. The nation has a enough of Trump’s Spoiled Brat Syndrome That is why so many GOP voters stayed home on Nov 5th. Trump lost the elections; the Dems did not win.
True to form, Dems Think That Their Racist Woke DEI Won the Election
Liberty and Prosperity
Trump’s atrocious behavior over the last several months was the major factor in Democrat Mikie Sherrill’s (D-NJ) winning the New Jersey governorship, but her lopsided victory (Democrat Sherrill’s 57% vs GOP’s Ciattarelli’s 43%) was probably due to her campaign slogan, Liberty and Prosperity. Despite her Wokeish past, her campaign motto, Liberty and Prosperity, which is also state’s motto, is philosophically the opposite of Wokeism. From before the Revolution War, Liberty and Prosperity are wrapped to together in the minds of most Americans – “like love and marriage, you cannot have one without the other.” Post election Dem pundits are ignoring Sherrill’s campaign theme of Liberty and Prosperity, which is the core of Declaration of Independence, is treasonous in Wokedom. Liberty and Prosperity is New Jersey’s state motto since 1777! Wokeism, on the other hand, says that the Declaration’s individual inalienable right to liberty was designed to perpetuate slavery, and thus, Wokeism considers Liberty to be a racist plot against Blacks. Yet, Liberty along with Prosperity stood tall as Sherrill campaign motto and she won by 13 points!
While the handwriting is on the wall for both political parties, the extreme MAGA and Wokers are illiterate. Trump is turning out to be a dysfunctional pawn for the GOP supporters of the Unitary Executive Theory, e.g., Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Sen. Majority Leader Sen. John Thune. Their problem is that Trump is likely to implode in time for the Dems t win in 2026. It’s a matter of which party is the most blindly deep into its own extremism that it cannot recognize both MAGA and Wokeism are loser platforms. The Unitary Executive supporters’ dilemma is whether to reign in Trump’s excesses now, e.g., tariffs, premature lodging of US military in Dem cities, his cutting food (SNAP) for children and the elderly, murders of alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea or allow Trump to alienate a majority of American voters so that Nov 2026 looks like Nov 2025.
The Wokers believe that Mamdani is some savior of Wokeism, but they ignore the fact that Americans Hate Wokeism . Thus, Mamdani’s win was not a national harbinger signifying voters love for Wokeism; it was the product of New York City’s dysfunctional Dem party. Except for the core MAGA and core Wokers most voters prefer Centrists.
(Richard Lee Abrams is a former Los Angeles-based attorney, an author, and political commentator. A long-time contributor to CityWatchLA, he is known for his incisive critiques of City Hall and judicial corruption, as well as his analysis of political and constitutional issues. Abrams blends legal insight with historical and philosophical depth to challenge conventional narratives. A passionate defender of civic integrity and transparency, he aims to expose misuse of power and advocate for systemic reform in local government. You may email him at [email protected])
