Earl Ofari Hutchinson
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This is Earl Ofari Hutchinson again with another edition of the Hutchinson Report commentary. Let’s go back to a date, a date that will always stick in my mind, September 11, 2016. On that date, I said, Donald Trump might win. All the pundits, all the analysts, the general electorate and certainly much of the media said, no chance. Reality star clown who can take him seriously.
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He’s going nowhere. It will be Hillary Clinton will be the next president. I said, ah, not so fast. He might win. I gave my reasons why.
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Let’s fast forward now eight years. It’s now October 2024. Again, the Hutchinson Report commentary today says this. If Trump wins, and he could, here’s why, sadly, here’s why. There’s several factors that go into why he could win again.
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Going back to what I said in 2016, many of them are still in play. Number one, America is a right center country. It’s still conservative. When you look at the heartland of America from coast to coast, with the exception of the west and the east coast portions, it’s red America, very evangelical, very conservative, very traditional, and very republican. Secondly, hot button issues, emotional issues, gender, race and immigration.
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Trump has played on that hard. His base, gender, race and immigration. It touches a nerve. And in fact, no matter how much sensationalism, how simplistic and how many lies above those issues, it still touches a nerve. The economy, Biden and Harris, it’s their economy, even though it’s doing well.
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Jobs are up, employment’s up, opportunities are up. Businesses, startups are up. The financial markets are doing well. Nonetheless, there’s trepidation and unease about the high cost of living and where we’re going with the economy. Many people are nervous, many people are fearful, and many people are strapped, even though the economy on the surface is doing well.
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It’s the ancient line. It’s the economy, stupid. So that could hurt a Harris and a Biden, in this case, Harrison Biden, and it can help Donald Trump. A fourth thing Trump many people forget was president and his record cuts both ways, the good and the bad, depending on how you spend it. Trump continually says unemployment was down, more jobs than ever, the economy where the financial markets are doing well.
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And to an extent, there’s truth to that. He takes full credit. He can’t. That partially was Obama, partially cyclical nature of capitalism, but he was the president. He gets credit.
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People remember that. And there were no wars during the Trump administration. People remember that then. White privilege, a huge segment of America defending white privilege. They think they are entitled to that.
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Trump plays to that in subtle and not so subtle ways. So he’s their hero, he’s their firewall against Hispanics, African Americans, LGBT, Asians, Native Americans, all the isms out there. So it’s clinging to a past privilege with a feel many is still theirs. Trump embodies that, then sensationalism. Sensationalism Trump understands.
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Keep it simple, keep it sensationalist, and most importantly, appeal to the baser instincts in individuals. Touch a nerve, touch a nerve. Touch and nerve. Human beings are emotional creatures, not necessarily logical, not necessarily rational, but emotional. Trump, like all autocrats and dictators down through history, has understood that.
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Keep it simple, keep it emotional. Touch a nerve. And then there’s finally, come on. Kamala Harris. When you think about her asian american ancestry, african american, West Indian, a progressive, but most importantly, a woman, many people say they have no problem with a woman president.
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In the history of this country, presidential elections, almost two and a half centuries, there’s never been a woman president. Will Harris be the first? Well, gender is still an issue. Still, many people feel a woman, no, there’s no way. The tough decisions, hard decisions.
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It’s a man’s world with foreign policy, things blowing up all the time, like the Middle East, Israel, Gaza, Hezbollah, wars. Do you need a tough man, a tough man as president to do that? Not a woman? All of these factors taken into play certainly are things that we need to be aware of that could add up to this if Trump wins, sadly, here’s why you’ve been listening to the Hutchinson report. I’m Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
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The topic Trump wins, reasons why.
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