The best analysis of Donald Trump’s victory I’ve seen: Why we want more of what we want most
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove called the 2024 presidential election “the most astonishing campaign in modern history.” After reading scores of reports on the results, I cannot find anyone who disagrees. But Daniel McCarthy’s explanation in the New York Times titled “This Is Why Trump Won” is by far the best explanation of the Republican victory I have seen. It also highlights a vital, even crucial insight for Christians seeking to serve Jesus in our post-Christian culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. It's Thursday, November the 7th, 2024, and this is the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:15.3 | Former White House deputy chief of staff, Carl Rove, called the 2024 presidential election, quote, the most astonishing |
| 0:23.0 | campaign in modern history. After reading scores of reports on the results, I cannot find anyone |
| 0:29.1 | who disagrees. Analysts are citing the economy in general, inflation in particular, President |
| 0:35.4 | Biden's ego, Kamala Harris as a candidate, |
| 0:38.8 | her failure to distinguish herself from Mr. Biden, |
| 0:41.8 | vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, the Democratic Party, the media, and the American electorate. |
| 0:48.6 | However, one of the most insightful critiques I have found takes a completely different approach. |
| 0:54.2 | Daniel McCarthy is the editor of an intellectual journal called Modern Age, a conservative review. |
| 1:00.9 | His writing has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, The Spectator, the National Interest, and a variety of other publications. |
| 1:08.8 | Immediately following Donald Trump's re-election, he published |
| 1:12.2 | a guest essay in the New York Times titled, This is Why Trump Won. McCarthy writes, |
| 1:18.0 | This was no ordinary contest between two candidates from rival parties. The real choice before |
| 1:23.5 | voters was between Mr. Trump and everyone else. Not only the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her party, |
| 1:30.4 | but also Republicans like Liz Cheney, |
| 1:33.1 | top military officers like Mark Millie and General John Kelly, |
| 1:37.2 | also a former chief of staff, |
| 1:39.0 | outspoken members of the intelligence community, |
| 1:41.0 | and Nobel Prize-winning economists. |
| 1:44.2 | McCarthy continues. |
| 1:45.7 | Framed this way, the presidential contest became an example of what's known in economics as |
| 1:51.2 | creative destruction. |
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