The Cultural Consequences of Trump's Victory

Plus: A listener asks the editors to name their least favorite national emergency from the list of those currently in effect.

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The Cultural Consequences of Trump's Victory

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie attempt to describe the ongoing cultural shifts occurring in the wake of President Donald Trump's re-election.

 

01:53—Donald Trump and cultural "vibe shift"

30:40—Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

41:00—Weekly listener question

45:50—Trump outrage lightning round

53:55—This week's cultural recommendations

 

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Trump Barely Won the Election. Why Doesn't It Feel That Way?" by Ezra Klein

"The Vibes They Are a-Shiftin,'" by Matthew Yglesias

"Are we entering a Conservative Golden Age?" by Nate Silver

"Last Boys at the Beginning of History," by Mana Afsari

"How Popular YouTubers Pushed Young Male Voters Toward Trump," by Davey Alba, Leon Yin, Julia Love, Ashley Carman, Pryanjana Bengani, Rachael Dottle, and Elena Mejía

"Trump's Tech Love Affair Won't Last," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

"Why Companies Are Ditching ESG," by John Stossel

"Stargate: Artificial Superintelligence in 4 Years?" by Ronald Bailey

"The Tech Bros Love Trump Because the Democrats Pushed Them Away," by Robby Soave

"Gillespie: 'Politicians Are Lagging Indicators,'" by Nick Gillespie

"Is the Women's March Melting Down?" by Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel

"Charles Gasparino: 'Woke' hypocrisy is hurting businesses," by Nick Gillespie

"Who's In Charge of Black Lives Matter's Millions of Dollars?" by Robby Soave

"Finding Trillions in Federal Cuts Is Easy. But Will Trump and Musk Follow Through?" by Eric Boehm

"Not Everything Is a National Emergency," by Bonnie Kristian

"Justin Amash Introduces Bill To End Forever National Emergencies," by Billy Binion

"Rand Paul, Ron Wyden Want To End Endless National Emergencies," by Eric Boehm

"Trump's Orders Feature Nonexistent Emergencies, Illegal Power Grabs, and Blatant Inconsistencies," by Jacob Sullum

"Trump's Illegal First-Day Executive Actions," by Ilya Somin

"Trump Targets Birthright Citizenship and Calls for Military Role in Deportations," by Fiona Harrigan

"Trump Tries To Fire Inspectors General, Likely Violating Federal Law," by Eric Boehm

"What Washington's Farewell Address Tells Us About Trump's America (Reason Podcast)," by Nick Gillespie and Ian Keyser

"Big Blue Men," by Sara Rimensnyder

George Washington- [Brad Neely]

 

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Audio production by Ian Keyser

Assistant production by Hunt Beaty

Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve

• Video Editor: Ian Keyser
• Producer: Hunt Beaty

What are we consuming this week?

Matt Welch

• Washington

Nick Gillespie

• Blue Man Group

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Stargate SG-1

Peter Suderman

• Landman

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Comments

[sarcasmic]

A listener asks the editors to name their least favorite national emergency from the list of those currently in effect.

When national emergencies give the president extra powers, everything becomes an emergency.

[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

For someone who is rarely here you're sure the first in thread a lot.

You see, I don't spend much time here anymore. It's become an echo chamber for retarded Trump defenders who absolutely hate libertarians which, while as exiting and exhilarating that might be for you, is fiendishly boorish and boring to me.

Weird.

[sarcasmic]

Yet you still post more about me than I post myself. Pathetic. You really need a life.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

Posting here is the only social interaction you get isn’t it?

[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

He has all those fun people in his made up stories too!

[sarcasmic]

Speak for yourself.

[Fire up the Woodchippers! (Trump Ascendant!! )]

How a mouthy punk like you remains unmurdered is astounding.

[sarcasmic]

How an emotionally unstable aggressor like you remains outside of prison is astounding.

[Fire up the Woodchippers! (Trump Ascendant!! )]

I break no laws. In fact, I’ve never even been arrested in my life. And I’ve often said how I would enjoy it if you followed through with your violent, unlawful, drunken threats, so I would have a legal pretext to savagely beat you. Emphasis on the ‘legal’ part.

I’m willing to bet you’ve seen the inside of a jail cell on multiple occasions.

[sarcasmic]

Nope. Sorry to disappoint. I do visit your mom in jail. Conjugal.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

Add early intoxication to this and you have Sarc.

[With Trump in, "now Lord you can let your servant go in peace"]

Which is not logically at all the same as saying there are no emergencies and emergencies don't require extra powers.
Try again.

[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Trump Barely Won the Election. Why Doesn't It Feel That Way?" by Ezra Klein

"The Vibes They Are a-Shiftin,'" by Matthew Yglesias

"Are we entering a Conservative Golden Age?" by Nate Silver

Lol.

[With Trump in, "now Lord you can let your servant go in peace"]

NO barely about it, all those extra votes were signally significant, eg every swing state gave Kamala the finger

[Your Therapist]

Trump will make Biden proud.

[Fire up the Woodchippers! (Trump Ascendant!! )]

What?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

TDS does that.

[shadydave]

"'Trump Barely Won the Election. Why Doesn't It Feel That Way?' by Ezra Klein"

Yeah it was a real nailbiter.

[Don't look at me!]

Didn’t he win the PoPuLaR vOtE?

[Alberto Balsalm]

The actual title of the article was "Trump Barely Won the Popular Vote. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?" But Jesse lies when he types. He and his sockos/mimes are almost as annoyingly smug as Ezra Klein.
Edit: looks like it was copypasta from tfa. He's still a smug asshole

[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

Lolwut? Are you a fucking retard? I cut and paste from the article dumbfuck.

How dumb are you idiots?

Do you guys have a daily bet on being the biggest retard?

You're such a fucking moron you even see i cut and paste but don't delete it. Talk about being smug when you're entire comment was retarded but you kept it lol.

[Fire up the Woodchippers! (Trump Ascendant!! )]

There are no assholes more smug (or stupid) than neo Marxist democrats.

[Truthfulness]

All seven battleground states went for Trump when most polls favored Harris to win the election. Sorry you can't handle the facts.

[Fire up the Woodchippers! (Trump Ascendant!! )]

Yep, he barely won in a huge landslide.

[Michael Ejercito]

https://soc.culture.israel.narkive.com/6yRhpLak/did-filipino-americans-help-trump-win-nevada

Did Filipino-Americans Help Trump Win Nevada?
Swing voters in a battleground state may have leaned right.

Sribala Subramanian
By Sribala Subramanian
December 11, 2024
Did Filipino-Americans Help Trump Win Nevada?
A Donald Trump campaign billboard on Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas,
Nevada, August 18, 2024.

Credit: ID 333882490 © Jerome Cid | Dreamstime.com
“Let’s do a poll.”

Donald Trump was addressing a campaign rally outside Las Vegas two weeks
before the November 5 election. The event was an outreach to
Asian-American voters in Nevada, the “swingiest” of the battleground states.

“Which do you like more?” asked the former president, referring to tax
exemptions. “Tips. Overtime. Social Security?” Tax cuts on Social
Security got the loudest cheer from the crowd.

“That’s amazing. . . the seniors always win,” said the 78-year-old
candidate, who ended the rally with a pretend golf swing as “YMCA” by
the Village People played over the speakers.

Trump won Nevada by 3 percentage points, flipping the state Republican
for the first time in 20 years.

Did Asian-American voters put the former president over the finish line?

A Washington Post report based on exit poll results showed that 61
percent of Asian voters in Nevada cast their ballot for Trump while 38
percent voted for the Democratic Party’s candidate, Kamala Harris.
Asian-American support for the former president was the highest among
any ethnic group in the state, surpassing even white voters (the
Republican base) by 7 points.

As the largest Asian subgroup in Nevada, Filipino-American voters may
have contributed to the “red wave” that swept across the state.

The Filipino community in the U.S. has historically voted for the
Democratic Party and a pre-election poll indicated that Kamala Harris
was their preferred candidate. However, the AAPI (Asian American and
Pacific Islander) election survey released in September found that
Filipino voters had grown disenchanted with both parties.

About 30 percent of respondents identified as independents, a 6-point
increase from 2020. Filipino voters listed the cost of housing, crime,
and Social Security as high-priority issues that would influence their
choice of candidate in the election.

The head of Turning Point Action, a conservative youth organization that
hosted the Nevada rally viewed the community’s growing non-partisan
profile as an opportunity for the Republican Party. “This is a group
that is poised to resonate powerfully with President Trump’s message of
economic empowerment, law-and-order, safe streets, and a return to
orderly, sane immigration policies,” said 31-year-old activist Charlie Kirk.

Both campaigns made a concerted effort to engage the community. At the
Turning Point rally, Trump drew attention to the fact that “so many
amazing Nevada Filipinos” were in the audience. The Harris campaign
focused on heritage and culture putting up billboards with the Tagalog
greeting, “Mabuhay!”

“There was very strong support for President Trump . . . in the state of
Nevada,” said Jose Manuel Romualdez, the Philippines’ ambassador to the
U.S., in an interview with the ABS-CBN News. Many Filipino American
voters, he noticed, “were not ashamed to admit” that they wanted to see
Trump back in the White House.

Romualdez pointed out that Filipino voters are “conservative in their
thinking.” An older generation of immigrants, many of whom are
practicing Catholics, support the Republican Party’s platform on abortion.

Trump’s message on illegal immigration struck a chord with naturalized
citizens from the Philippines, who are reluctant to legitimize the
status of undocumented workers from their home country. Romualdez urged
Filipinos without a secure path to citizenship to “leave voluntarily
because once you are deported you can never come back to the United States.”

In a post entitled “Anatomy of a red wave – How Trump won Nevada,” the
non-partisan Nevada Independent commented that “Trump had a clearer,
simpler message than Harris – the people in power made prices high, and
he would fix it.” At the rally, Trump brought up “kitchen table”
concerns saying, “Everybody I speak to, they talk about groceries. . .
your foods have gone up 50, 60, 70 percent.”

Trump’s pitch to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits was popular
with Filipino-Americans across the country. “His concerns for the
elderly is admirable,” a first-time voter from Oklahoma told ANC 24/7, a
Philippines-based news channel. A tax break on Social Security was “good
news” she explained since her retirement benefits were due next year.

A month after the election, however, one Republican lawmaker who had
been briefed on the incoming administration’s plans to cut federal
spending declared “nothing is sacrosanct” implying that Social Security
and Medicare costs would not be excluded from budget-related discussions.

In an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, James Zarsadiaz a
historian at the University of San Francisco and Director of the
Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program wrote: “The 2024 election results
make clear: The Asian American electorate has shifted further right.”

[mad.casual]

The Cultural Consequences of Trump's Victory

The worst of all cultural consequence: ketchup on a steak.

[Fire up the Woodchippers! (Trump Ascendant!! )]

I love how that drives them nuts.

[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

Based on Alberto he drives them even more retarded.

[Commenter_XY]

Yes, there will be a cultural change. Much needed, too.

Please post a transcript.

[Ersatz]

I'm not sure it will be (or is) cultural change so much as shedding the AstroTurf grafting that was being foisted on a society that just wants to go along to get along. They can be bullied into almost anything and the proggies were good at marshalling all the cultural power centers to push an artificial etiquette for polite society.

Basically a recognition that normal was and is still normal.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

From a "socio-cultural perspective" I think that is an excellent summation; average person got really sick of all the virtue signaling and being told what they had to believe and accept. The progs greatly overplayed their hand [being true believers they really couldn't do otherwise--look up numerous articles over the past decade and a half proclaiming who won and lost the "cultural war"] and now they've been put back into their respective closets. The Democratic Party made the mistake of playing along and effectively got its ass spanked.

Politically Democrats kept very decent minorities in both houses, which tells me we will always have differences as to the scope and role of government and over any number of issues like guns and abortions, but the veneer of progressive cultural supremacy is punked; may it ever remain so.

[d.b]

MY least favorite national emergencies are every one of the pant shitting democrat comments about Trump, Musk, Tulsi, RFK Jr that I see in every social media comment section. Sorry Libbies: your trash lost, deservedly so.