The Real Reason Trump Won: The Failure of the Democratic Party
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump won the presidency for a second time. Brian and Eugene discuss the Trump comeback, why it happened, and what to expect.
Brian is joined by Eugene Puryear, an author and political organizer, and co-host of The Freedom Side LIVE, a live video show every Thursday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern on BreakThrough News.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump has won the presidency for a second time. |
| 0:06.0 | Today we'll talk about the Trump comeback, why it happened, and what to expect. |
| 0:11.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:15.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:20.0 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. necessity. Welcome to the Socialist program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. Today we're talking once again with Eugene Per Year. Eugene is an author. he's a political organizer, and he is the co-host of Freedom Side Live, |
| 1:00.0 | a live video show every Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. Eastern on Breakthrough News. |
| 1:06.0 | Eugene, welcome back. |
| 1:08.0 | Brian, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:10.0 | Thank you for joining a big day today. |
| 1:12.3 | Yesterday was the election. |
| 1:14.9 | Much talked about election. |
| 1:17.3 | When you think about what actually happened, |
| 1:20.4 | Donald Trump won the popular vote. |
| 1:23.1 | You got about, I don't know, 71, 72 million votes. |
| 1:26.1 | They're not fully counted. |
| 1:27.1 | Maybe it'll be a little bit more. |
| 1:29.3 | He won the electoral college. I mean, four years ago, Eugene, Joe Biden won by a greater margin than |
| 1:37.2 | that in terms of popular vote. The Democrats controlled the House and the Senate. What happened? |
| 1:42.1 | From your point of view? Yes. Well, there's quite a bit here. And I think when we look at the overall issue of turnout, I mean, let's zero in on a couple points. I mean, obviously turnout overall was lower. You see the Democrats in and of themselves. And of course, you know, some of these numbers will take them with a grain of salt because, as you mentioned, you know, they will change a little bit as more states come in. But I think, you know, you can take them as rough proxies. The Democrats losing something like 14 million votes, Trump losing nearly two million votes. I mean, very significantly, one of the major factors I think we just have to say is a lot of people who voted in the last election cycle just stayed home. Now, the question is, why did they stay home? Now, there are a lot of different |
| 2:17.8 | reasons why that may be and why we may be seeing some of these pieces, but I want to hone in on one |
| 2:22.5 | particular piece, Brian, and that is, if you compare 2020 to 2024, the percentage of the |
| 2:28.4 | electorate of people making under $100,000 went down 14%. And I'll just give you some specific numbers. It went down |
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