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Friday, November 15, 2024

Dearborn Dupes

If I may be permitted to stay in anger mode for just a while longer and not "be pleasant" I would like to do a quick post mortem on Michigan and the recent election. 

It swung to Trump, largely on account of a very pissed off Muslim demographic, angry about Gaza. 

Good article on the subject at Foreign Affairs, Why Michigan Arab Americans voted for Trump.

Arab and Muslim Americans in Michigan, especially in the city of Dearborn, shifted away from the Democratic Party and toward President-elect Donald Trump in 2024. The Biden-Harris administration’s unwavering military assistance to Israel—and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s willingness to continue this policy—drove Arab American voters in Michigan away from a party that the community had consistently supported since the early 2000s. Trump won the state by  more than 80,000 votes after losing it to outgoing President Joe Biden by more than 150,000 votes in 2020.

Trump won Dearborn, where more than half the population is of Middle Eastern or North African descent, by capturing 42 percent of votes to Harris’s 36 percent; the Green Party’s Jill Stein also took a substantial 18 percent of the vote in the city. In neighborhoods within the city where Arab Americans are the majority, such as eastern Dearborn, Harris performed even worse.

For example, in 2020, Biden beat Trump in eastern Dearborn by nearly 10,000 votes. On Election Day this year, the Detroit Free Press reports that Trump defeated Harris in eastern Dearborn by nearly 3,700 votes, accumulating 45 percent of the vote in 2024 after receiving only 18 percent in 2020 resulting in a 27 percent swing toward Trump that demonstrates how the Democrats’ refusal to restrain Israel as it destroyed Gaza likely pushed Arab Americans to the right.

Now I understand their disaffection. But they will find out that the are sadly mistaken if they think that Trump will be a better friend to the Arab world than Harris would have and Biden has been. With his Pro Israel Christian constituency and relationship with Netanyahu, it just ain't going to happen.

They just voted against their own self interest and they will get absolutely nothing for it.

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Speaking of Michigan, I was talking to Barry and he asked me where I thought Ted Nugent would land in the Trump Cabinet? It's a good question but do you think there is enough room for both Terrible Ted and Kid Rock in the same administration?

6 comments:

Jon Harwood said...

An ages long history of intense violence in the Middle East, Hamas using the whole population of Gaza as human shields, the emergence of a potent right wing in Israel and the decline in US power to intervene with Israel or its adversaries have combined to produce what is plainly a total war against Gaza. It is not so hard to understand why US citizens of Arab descent could find it hard to vote for Biden since he is the symbol of the US policy that, reluctantly or not, allows Israel to go as far as it has chosen to go with violence in Gaza. I suppose Netanyahu is a special villain in all of this since he masterfully manipulates US politics. Finally we, the US, go along with this because Israel is quite vulnerable should its adversaries ever get themselves together enough to launch a sustained coordinated war. Oh well, Trump ought to spice the whole thing up with his buddy Netanyahu.

Finest said...

The continued nitpicking of a this failed campaign is a joke. They bought a billion dollar tube of lipstick and put it on their pig of a candidate, and she still oinked her way into
oblivion. She sucked and they knew that and tried every which way to hide her but her
smell seeped out anyway. Longer campaign? She would have reeked even more.

From the get go this was a campaign of deception, hide this, lie to that, change this
script, forget that policy. Stick this celeb in front of her, change that pantsuit color,
what ever. Get over it. If they had run anyone else, they would have won, even Biden.
Even Willie Brown said nobody liked her.

The handlers have no one to blame but themselves. Now exit stage right all ye high and mighty players of yore...the Bidens, Obamas, Clintons, Carvilles, Pelosis and best of all Harris/Walz. Stick a fork in it...your done. MAGA did it again, for a third the price. And for God's sake never pick a VP named Tim again. You're 0 for 2.

(Name withheld by acclimation)

Blue Heron said...

You won John. Get over it.

Finest said...

Now it's $2.5 Buh Buh Billion...and Harpo got $2.5 Mill-a-ruskies...Kamalot be berry berry good to Oprah.
I love napalming Blue Heron Blast in the morning...it smells like Victory!

Bill Kilgore

Jon Harwood said...

OK

Anonymous said...

Finest…you stink!