There’s no sugar-coating that. However, at the same time there are also real and true budding signs of hope in this dark hour. Average Americans are awakening from their long, comfort-induced stupor, rubbing their eyes and asking in the colloquialism of the day: WTF.
There are solid, empirical changes to the political and cultural landscape that can provide real hope that despite the nayest of naysayers, the end is not here. Yet. And that means hope remains.
Here are five signs that we are turning around in times of easy despair — if we will faithfully and diligently fight:
1. Average Americans are increasingly distrusting the Democrat media
For far too long, the most moderate and non-political Americans trusted the media to give them the essential facts, even with a bias. But the media have committed trust suicide.
Less than one-third of Americans trust the mass media “a great deal” or “a fair amount” to report the news in a full, fair and accurate way, according to a Gallup poll. Conversely, 29 percent of Americans have “not very much” trust, while a record-high 39 percent say they have “none at all” — which is 12 points higher than 2016.
Gallup and the Knight Foundation have been tracking the decline of trust in the news media for many years and in a separate Gallup poll, they report devastating, or heartening, results depending on your point of view. Fully 50 percent of Americans say most national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public. It’s even a bit worse for local news organizations, where 54 percent say that.
The Democrat misinformation campaigns spearheaded by the formerly mainstream corporate media were exposed with the Russian collusion op, the long-running Covid op, the Jan. 6 “insurrection” op and so many more. While the media bemoans the role of social media, young people now trust it for news over the corporate media. And why not? But this plummet from grace by the media in the eyes of average Americans is a necessity in turning the nation around. The media has played perhaps the single biggest role in undermining America in the most gaslighting of ways. Its demise among normal Americans is to be applauded.
2. Republican-run states are attracting people, Democrat ones repelling them
This is most dramatically true when looking at domestic, in-country migration gains and losses between states — people choosing to move their lives from one state to another.
The top 10 states gaining population from domestic movement from 2021 to 2022 were: Florida (318,855), Texas (230,961), North Carolina (99,796), South Carolina (84,030) and Tennessee (81,646), followed by Georgia, Arizona, Idaho, Alabama and Oklahoma. In fact, you have to go 15 states down the list to get to the first blue state, Delaware, with a tiny increase of 11,826.
Conversely, the states with the largest net domestic out migration were: California (-343,230), New York (-299,557), Illinois (-141,656), New Jersey (63,241) Massachusetts (57,292.) You have to go 14 states up from the bottom to reach your first red state, Ohio, with a tiny loss of 9,165 people.
For those worrying this will make red states more blue, the opposite seems to be happening. I’m personally very familiar with Florida, and the majority of people moving to the state from blue states, including New York, New Jersey and Michigan, are Republicans. So while this does mean the red get redder and the blue get bluer, it also means that red states continue to gain electorally based on population. And it means that it is becoming more and more apparent that conservative, red-state policies are increasingly attractive to more Americans.
3. Blacks and Hispanics becoming more Republican
Democrats loved claiming for years that demography is destiny. This was very big when I was in newsrooms as, duh, virtually all of my colleagues were Democrat voters. That was the normal status quo thinking by leftists who seem incapable of judging people outside their skin color and understanding that people really do change over time.
For instance, Texas was definitely going to become a blue state because of the giant influx of Hispanics from south of the border, which of course is one driving reason for Democrats’ open border fervor. But the static thinkers were wrong. Of particular note, the southern border counties of Texas that have large majorities of Hispanics voted Republican in 2016 and 2020. In fact, they represented the largest swing to Republicans in those elections.
It’s not just Donald Trump who performs well with Hispanics. Ron DeSantis won his landslide re-election in Florida in 2022 in part on the strength of Hispanic voters. He won 58 percent of Hispanics and beat his opponent by 15 points. In the overall 2022 midterms, Republicans increased their share of the Hispanic vote by 10 percent compared to 2018. Black voters are also trending more Republican, albeit at a slower pace. And since Oct. 7, it appears more traditionally Democrat-voting Jews may fill in the oval for Republicans.
4. The Republican Party has become the Party of working Americans
This matters because there are simply a lot more working, blue-collar Americans, than elitist, white-collar Americans. The trend showed itself during the George W. Bush years, but roared to life with Trump’s 2016 victory where these voters tipped Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania for Trump. The Republican Party is no longer seen as the party of the rich, no matter how much Democrats and their media gaslight Americans (see point No. 1)
So Ohio went from being a swing state to solidly red on the strength of blue-collar voting. Florida did so on the strength of Hispanic voting. Meanwhile, Democrats continue to be revealed as the party of the wealthiest of the wealthy; Silicon Valley billionaires, hedge fund billionaires, Wall Streeters, Ivy Leaguers, the whole parade of arrogant wealth on display.
In a HarrisX poll conducted this past summer, 56 percent of upper class voters said they most identify with the Democratic Party, compared to 28 percent who chose the Republican Party. Among respondents who said they are upper middle class, 45 percent said they were most aligned with Democrats, compared to 30 percent who side with Republicans. The middle and working classes roughly flip these numbers.
Interestingly, now that Republicans have gained the support of the middle and working classes, the Democrat media establishment hand-wringing is ratcheted up over pernicious populism. Yes, you see, now representing working Americans is populism. Read any corporate media outlet.
5. Americans are waking from their long slumber
Americans’ trust in the federal government is in the basement. According to Pew Research, a meager 16% of Americans say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right “just about always” or “most of the time”. In 2022, 20 percent said they trusted the government most of the time. Not sure who those 16 percenters are, but when was the last time 84 percent of Americans agreed on anything? And interestingly, only 25 percent of Democrats say they trust the feds, while Hispanics and blacks are even less.
Americans are also increasingly opposed to the woke agenda, at least when the issues are presented separately from the word “woke,” which the media propaganda machine has worked over time to cast in the positive. Americans disapprove of racial preferences by a 17-point margin, making the Democrat-demonized U.S. Supreme Court decision on college admissions actually popular.
An increasing majority of Americans now oppose boys who say they are girls playing in girls sports, up to 69 percent in 2023 from 62 percent in 2021. And on the flip side, a decreasing number of Americans support transgenders (almost universally boys) playing outside their biological sex (girls teams), dropping from 34 percent in 2021 to 26 percent in 2023, according to a Gallup poll. The polls also found that an increasing majority of Americans, 55 percent, consider “changing one’s gender” as “morally wrong,” which is up from 51 percent two years earlier.
Finally, for all of the bellyaching about the two-party system, and the supposed hatred of the Republican Party by the base, that’s not what people tell pollsters. Axios’ reporting on a Pew Poll is telling, emphasizing on the increase in negativity and ignoring the overall non-negatives: “Four times as many Americans have unfavorable views of both parties today than they did in 2002 — an all-time high, with Republicans and Democrats equally unpopular.” But that increase still only amounts to 28 percent who view both parties as unfavorable, which means most Americans don’t view the parties, or more likely, their party, as the problem — although they really don’t like politicians, which frankly goes back at least to Daniel Boone’s time.
These are shoots of hope for conservative, traditionalist, America-loving Americans and for the Republican Party if it can lay hold of them.
