Trump Barely Won the Popular Vote. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?
Trump’s cultural victory has lapped his political victory. The election was close, but the vibes have been a rout.
This is partially because he’s surrounded by some of America’s most influential futurists. Silicon Valley and crypto culture’s embrace of Trump has changed his cultural meaning more than Democrats have recognized.
In 2016, Trump felt like an emissary of the past; in 2025, he’s being greeted as a harbinger of the future.
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In July of 2024, Tyler Cowen, the economist and cultural commentator, wrote a blog post
that proved to be among the election’s most prescient.
Cowen’s argument was that mass culture was moving in a Trumpian direction.
Among the tributaries flowing into the general shift: the Trumpist right’s deeper embrace of social media, the backlash to the “feminization” of society, exhaustion with the politics of wokeness, an era of negativity that Trump captured but Democrats resisted, a pervasive sense of disorder at the border and abroad and the breakup between Democrats and “Big Tech.”
I was skeptical of Cowen’s post when I first read it, as it described a shift much larger than anything I saw reflected in the polls.
I may have been right about the polls. But Cowen was right about the culture.
Ezra Klein New York Times 19 January 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/opinion/trump-mandate-zuckerberg-masculinity.html
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