"THE WOKE LOSE" - Ben Shapiro / @benshapiro / November 05, 2020 / https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/11/05/the-woke-lose
Activists with ShutDownDC hold signs as they march around the White House complex Nov. 5, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Al Drago/Stringer/Getty Images)
On Tuesday night, the American people spoke. They spoke with millions upon millions of voices to produce the greatest presidential election voter turnout in over a century. And they sent a variety of messages, most of them quite positive.
Voters rejected the prevailing narratives of a media determined to make the election a pure referendum on Donald Trump’s character. Even if Joe Biden prevails eventually, he will likely be faced with a Republican Senate majority and a 2022 contest that will put the House of Representatives squarely in Republican sights.
Voters rejected the pollsters’ overconfident modeling: Pollsters were dramatically wrong in their national numbers and just as wrong in their Senate estimates. Voters apparently aren’t all that interested in registering their opinions with elite firms who see them as social science subjects rather than as individuals.
Voters stuck to their guns in red states; they stuck to their guns in blue states; they stuck to their guns in purple states. America is divided, and it is not growing less divided just out of the elitists’ overwrought and hysterical mewling about Trump. This is still a country that is one-third conservative, one-third liberal, and one-third in the middle.
But one message resonated above all others: the outright rejection of the ongoing quest by Democrats and the media to paint Americans into racial categories and then declare demographics destiny. Trump bucked four long years of Democrats and media members labeling both him and his supporters white supremacists, bigots, and homophobes. He refused to be cowed by a media determined to paint him as a racist for refusing the faulty premise that America is institutionally bigoted. And he won an increased share of black and Hispanic voters. According to Edison exit polling, as of election night, Trump had gained two points with white women; four points with black men and four points with black women; three points with Latino men and three points with Latino women; and five points in the “other” category. In Florida, according to NBC News exit polling, Trump’s coalition included a 55% share of the Cuban American vote, a 30% share of the Puerto Rican vote, and 48% of “other Latinos.”
Trump substantially elevated the national share of Latino and black voters for Republicans—and did so without pandering on illegal immigration or buying into the trite and ugly lies of the Black Lives Matter movement.
It wasn’t just Trump. In California, a majority-minority state, voters refused to greenlight the racist Proposition 16, which would have repealed a state constitutional provision banning racial discrimination, paving the way for reparations and affirmative action. They did so by a margin of over 10 points and despite the fact that Prop 16 advocates spent 12 times the money their opponents did.
All of this has sent woke thinkers into spasms of apoplexy. The execrable Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the pseudo-historical 1619 Project, tweeted out that Latinos can no longer be considered a racial category, since some Cubans are “white.” Charles Blow of The New York Times tweeted, “We are surrounded by racists.” Actually, Hannah-Jones and Blow aren’t surrounded by racists. They’re surrounded by people who reject racism and reject the implicitly racist belief that ethnicity ought to dictate voting pattern.
All of this is excellent news. Americans spoke Tuesday night. They spoke as Americans, as individuals, not as members of contrived interest groups. And that is certainly worth celebrating.
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Ben Shapiro is host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is The New York Times best-selling author of "Bullies." He is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, and lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.
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"Trump Gains Ground Among Minority Voters, but Loses Some With Whites" - Fred Lucas / @FredLucasWH / November 04, 2020; https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/11/04/trump-gains-ground-among-minority-voters-but-loses-some-with-whites
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the disorder of the world. - Karl Barth
PRAISE GOD for the continuing successes against
ETHIOPIA. Building a school. In rural Ethiopia, an Open Doors school is helping a small Christian community regain their place in society. For many years, these believers have lived like outsiders in their own village. A local pastor named Sileshi* proposed building a school, believing it would bring in the church and social outsiders and win the trust of their Muslim community.The school is helping the local church be seen as a valued contributor to the community where children can receive a good education. Believers are treated with greater tolerance, and Christians have the opportunity to live out the gospel in practical ways.
November 6 -Thank God that Christians feel they can now worship without fear.
*Representative name or photo used to protect identity.
Thanks for encouraging articles during a discouraging time!
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