Blue Wall Turns to Rubble; Trump Wins; Democrats Despondent Despite felony convictions, the Republican nominee will carry the Electoral College; GOP recaptures the U.S. Senate. @mattizcoop on last night. [_link]

— Washington Monthly (@monthly) November 6, 2024

#OTD 11/5/1968 Former VP Richard Nixon elected 37th President of the United States. Nixon-Agnew carried 32 states and received 301 electoral votes in 3-way race with incumbent VP Hubert Humphrey and former AL Governor George Wallace. (Image: 1968 election campaign WHPO-0866-01) pic.twitter.com/pyDVPcuSXf

— RichardNixonLibrary (@NixonLibrary) November 5, 2021

Democrats are now realizing it's really hard to win a general election while slaughtering thousands of children

— Revolutionary Blackout Network🥋 (@SocialistMMA) November 6, 2024

Until Victory Is Won - Allied Pledge At Historic Meeting (1941)

The stance of fascist bombing across the Middle East is not "heroic" and should have been prevented by the United Nations with support of all "great" powers.

'Sapere aude'

The U.S. at a crossroads after Trump's return | Mondoweiss |

The 2024 presidential election was more than just a setback for the Democrats. It exposed the entrenched racism of the country's myopic political elite, which features a bipartisan moral blindness toward injustice abroad notably the genocide in Gaza.

Adding to this disillusionment is the Democratic Party's tacit acceptance of endless military spending, which many Americans see as emblematic of a system that prioritizes global conflicts over domestic needs. There are growing numbers in the U.S. who are disillusioned by the trillions of dollars spent in endless wars--whether in Ukraine, Palestine, or maintaining military bases around the world--enriching the military-industrial complex while millions experience poverty, homelessness, inflation, student debt, and collapsing infrastructure.

Trump's victory is
overshadowed by an even
deeper moral crisis: the
bipartisan complicity in
supporting Israel's actions in
Gaza--a stance that has
alienated progressives and
severely damaged America's
moral standing worldwide.

Money is readily available to fund the war in Ukraine and to aid Israel, yet securing funds to assist the poor or repair America's decaying infrastructure remains a near impossibility. This disconnect between spending priorities and the pressing needs of American citizens only deepened the distrust and alienation even though Trump offered no solutions to these pressing problems.

Trump's re-election is not an outlier but a searing indictment of the American electorate. His return to office demonstrates an America willing to endorse the ugliest aspects of its character--resurgent nativism, casual xenophobia, and an appeal to authoritarianism that flouts democratic principles. Trump's victory is not just a political statement but a cultural one, affirming the darkest impulses in American society, rooted in a longstanding cultural and racial rot that has festered unchecked.

This decay is fueled in part by an education system and socialization that extols a false consciousness of American exceptionalism. Generations of Americans have been taught to view the U.S. as a model democracy while remaining insulated from the truth of its historical and ongoing injustices. This myth has bred a form of willful ignorance that blinds voters to the deeper issues plaguing the nation and primes them to support leaders like Trump - figures who offer no real solutions to pressing problems but skillfully exploit this distorted patriotism.

European leaders urge Trump to maintain support for Ukraine | The Guardian |

Leaders at EPC talks in Budapest also call on president-elect to avoid trade war on return to White House

On the agenda were support for Ukraine, migration, trade and economic security. An informal summit of EU leaders alone will focus on Friday on the bloc's declining competitiveness, laid bare in a report by the former Italian leader Mario Draghi.

Trump's victory brings unwanted further uncertainty to the continent at a time when it is already struggling to agree on common responses to its problems, including much-needed new funding tools, such as joint borrowing, for defence and economic innovation.

The return of the former president raises the prospect of a halt to US support for Ukraine, fuels doubts over Washington's future commitment to the Nato alliance, and could herald economically disastrous tariffs on European exports.

It is also likely to bolster Europe's advancing far-right parties at a time when the bloc's two biggest powers, Germany, whose coalition government collapsed on Wednesday, and France, are weakened by political crises at home.