The end of Trump: When Enough is Enough
Néstor Cedeño
Néstor Cedeño es autor de Entre rebelión y dictadura y Entre lucha y esperanza,
dos obras de relatos, poemas y escritos sobre la rebelión cívica de 2018 en Nicaragua.
Numbers don’t lie… and facts matter.
In my crusade to push for my students to be more “fact based” and use sources to back up their arguments and claims, I find it important to analyze the reasons why Joe Biden was able to defeat Donald Trump in a tight election. Here are my thoughts on the matter:
Folks like Stacey Abrams, who whipped up the black vote BIG TIME, registering over 800,000 African Americans to vote after she lost a disputed Georgia governor’s race made all the difference in a deep red state. Truth be told, that they didn’t show up for Hillary… many may have felt disenfranchised and not interested in someone like her. Trump claiming that no one other than Abraham Lincoln has done more for African Americans had to be a slap in the face to many in the black community. And constantly hating on the Black Lives Matter movement simply will not get a politician major black votes. I’m surprised Trump got 12%.
Latinos are diverse, folks: … the “socialism” narrative may have worked with many in some exile communities but calling Mexicans “rapist and thugs” won’t get their support. Out West Trump was seen for who he really is. Not to say that Trump didn’t get a fair share of the Latin vote, but it just wasn’t enough to claim victory.
First-time voters also stepped up. It brings up the thought of the March for our Lives movement, who called “B.S.” on Trump and Republicans for their lack of action and empathy towards the issues that this current generation is passionate about.
Women were TIRED of the misogynistic rhetoric from someone they considered a “pig” of a man and president. These women who may have voted for him in 2016 – giving him a vote of confidence, regardless of numerous cases against his treatment of females, simply had enough of his crude demeanor and supported the movement to vote him out.
Numbers don’t lie… and facts matter.
The question is whether one wants to accept them or not.
I have to confess that on Election night I went to bed nervous and sad at the possibility of Joe Biden losing this election and having to live through another four years of a Trump presidency. But, in what will go down as the craziest election during an even crazier year, the statistics that have come out of this cycle demonstrate that the United States had had enough.
