At the time of writing we don’t know the final result of the US presidential election. What we do know is that yesterday Biden had an average 8.4% lead over Trump. In order for Trump to win it was necessary that the pollsters would be more wrong than they ever have been before. Trump was a 2/1 shot in the bookmakers. There was pretty much certainty that Biden would win.
I had a thought yesterday that there might be a
surprise, but I went to bed thinking that I would wake up to headlines saying
Joe Biden had won. When I switched on my computer, I got a headline that the
race was too close to call and soon after I discovered that Trump was now 1/2
favourite.
Something very strange has happened, and I think I
know what it is. There is enormous social pressure against Conservatives. At
work or among friends people with liberal or leftwing views feel that they can
speak freely. They can criticise evil Tories, they can talk about the insanity
of Brexit or how wonderful the Black Lives Matter movement is. There are all
sorts of taboo subjects where we know that we have to be seen to hold the correct
view. I don’t tell colleagues that I don’t think a man can become a woman. I
don’t tell them that I don’t think men can marry men. I don’t tell anyone I don’t
know in Scotland that I disagree with Scottish independence. It’s not worth
getting into an argument with people at work or in the pub.
But it only works one way. People with left-wing PC
views don’t feel this constraint. They expect everyone else to nod their heads
in agreement. It is for this reason that I don’t tell anyone other than close
friends and family my views on anything.
But if there is a taboo about certain issues, there is
a still greater taboo about Donald Trump. Even Conservative commentators in
Britain rarely have anything good to say about President Trump. For people on
the left and the mainstream media Trump is the devil incarnate.
Trump is in the innermost circle of Hell for the BBC,
Sky News and most other journalists for a number of reasons.
1. He boasted about grabbing women by the pussy and
getting away with it. This put him beyond the pale not least because everyone
knew what he said was true.
2. He tried to make it harder for people from certain Muslim
countries to come to America.
3. He prevented Hilary Clinton from becoming the first
woman president.
4. He tried to build a wall stopping Mexicans from entering
the US illegally.
5. He agrees with Brexit and wants to have a trade
deal with the UK.
6. He treats Covid in the same way we have treated
every other pandemic in human history and opposes locking down society for the
first time in history.
7. He disagrees with the aims of Black Lives Matters
and instead praises the major figures from American history.
8. He recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,
but the result of this is that Israel has normalised relations with a number of
Arab states.
9. He is boastful, vain, vulgar and popular with
people who like those things.
10. He repeatedly says things that the liberal Left
and the media in general think are forbidden for anyone to say let alone the
President of the United States.
So not merely in Britain but also and to a much
greater extent it is absolutely forbidden for anyone to express support for
Donald Trump. Only the worst low lifes could even consider voting for him. Donald
Trump’s voters must be rubes. They can be no more than one generation away from
poor white trash.
Who on earth would admit to voting for Donald Trump?
It would be more socially acceptable to admit to voting for Hannibal Lecter.
But this is precisely why the polls were so wrong. You
see there are lots of us who can see that Donald Trump may have some faults,
but we are willing to forgive him for them. He may make some gaffs, but the essence
of his thinking about matters is frequently very clear and sound. Some of us
have seen how the woke left has been burning down America and how it exports
this sort of stuff to us. We’d rather like someone to stop it. It’s not going
to be Joe Biden. It just might be Donald Trump.
Lots of Conservatives are willing to forgive Trump
rather a lot because on the economy he is sound. He has done good work on
foreign policy and he genuinely loves Britain.
It is for this reason that while we keep quiet about
supporting Donald Trump just as our US cousins do, we hope that he will win.
If Trump wins, and I very much hope he does it will be
the triumph of someone written off by almost everyone. There can be no greater
triumph than that. Go on President Trump. Make America still greater.
