Strange shift in US politics

US president-elect Donald Trump attends the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on November 14. | Agence France-Press/Getty Images/Joe Raedle THE Republican red colour has inundated the entire USA like the Antediluvian flooding. If you look at the map, it appears that painters put red paint all over except for some streaks of blue representing Democrats at the NE coastal belt, the thin slivers of the west coast, and some blue drops scattered here and there on the urban areas. However, the population shares between the two parties are almost the same. The US election in November 2024 activated a strange shift in American politics. What went wrong for the Democrats? The situation warrants the Democrats’ soul searching. A story by Martha McHardy, published by Newsweek on November 9, 2024, gives a pertinent clue to what happened in the voting booths. Ms McHardy wrote, ‘Exit poll data shows that the shift toward Trump in New Jersey was largely driven by counties with large Hispanic populations. For example, in Hudson County, a deeply Democratic stronghold with a 41 per cent Hispanic population, Trump won 35 per cent of the vote, up from 26 per cent in 2020. Meanwhile, Trump...