Working Class America Rises Up

We now know the results of The Most Important Election of Our Lifetimes. After a decade of lies, deceit and crushing coercion against their livelihoods and way of life, working class America finally stood up to say: “Enough.”

We saw it in Pennsylvania, where Donald Trump not only flipped the state, but expanded his margin of victory from 2016. He won about half a million more votes than the first time he won the state, winning some rural districts by margins over 70%.

We saw it in Michigan, another recaptured state, where deep blue counties home to Detroit, Lansing and Ann Arbor stayed relatively stable over the past two cycles, but Trump increased his total number of votes by hundreds of thousands.

We saw it in New York, where the last little bastion of working class New York City — Staten Island — turned out in record numbers for Trump, an additional eight points since 2020. Rural, upstate counties that were only lukewarm on Trump in 2020 flipped hard, delivering multiple double digit victories this time around.

We saw it in New Jersey, where Trump made this one solid blue bulwark into a bona fide swing state. Losing by only five points, Trump flipped some inland, rural counties that he lost in 2020, and widened his leads in already red areas.

🚨🇺🇸 SCOTT JENNINGS: THIS IS REVENGE OF THE WORKING-CLASS AMERICAN

“He’s won the national popular vote; this is a big deal.

I’m interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of the regular working-class American, the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, and… pic.twitter.com/HNHguyzqVI

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 6, 2024

We saw it in broad demographic shifts as well. Hispanic Americans make up more than double the proportion of the working class as they do white collar workers, and a whopping 45% swung for Trump. Unsurprisingly, he flipped several heavily Hispanic border counties in Texas that Democrats carried in 2020.

We saw it in the simple fact that Trump seems to have won the popular vote, against all odds. That doesn’t mean everyone who voted for him works in a factory, but it does mean they have a greater vision for America than an over-credentialed, laptop-toting, smug but deeply unworthy progressive “elite” has to offer.

We’re still waiting on all the final tallies to come in, but the signs all point in one direction: Working class America will not be cowed. There could be no more poetic justice. Heartland America saw themselves increasingly come under fire ever since Trump first came down the escalator. They rightly sensed what Trump always said was true; Trump himself is but a stand-in for elites’ hatred of the American people. They were manipulated with lies, told their grievances weren’t real, and that acting on them would lead to the end of democracy. They were psychoanalyzed en masse as terrible people, driven by bigotry and a hatred of “others” who would take what was theirs. They saw political coercion, censorship and even violence reign down against them. And yet, they refused to allow themselves to believe it or bend.

The historically rugged individualism of American workers, builders, makers and doers shined through on election night, and they told these petty bullies and tyrants what American people always do: Kindly shove off, or we’ll make you. After 10 years, Americans finally resorted overwhelmingly to the latter. Let’s see if Democrats finally get the memo.