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 Matt Goodwin's Substack- 10/11/24 Hurrah! We’ve just climbed to Number 4 in the Substack World Politics leaderboard which means we’re probably the most read Substack in the UK and among the most read in the World. While we now have 61,000 readers, many more people are reading us each month, with around 1-2 million clicks every month. But why? What explains our success? I think the answer has a lot to do with the remarkable and historic events this week which much of the legacy media, the elite class, and the established Groupthink, once again, largely failed to see coming. The remarkable comeback of Donald Trump, the continuation and expansion of the underlying realignment of Western politics—which I first pointed to a decade ago— and the diversification of Trump’s coalition have all caught the elite class off guard. As I said in a speech this week, much of it has taken me back to 2016 when such was the shock over Trump’s first victory that Hillary Clinton was even forced to sit d...

In many ways, the UK is now a carbon-copy of Biden’s America. So will the British Right mimic the Republicans’ success at the next election? Source -Daily Telegraph Link The Democrats can’t say they weren’t warned. In 2016, “the longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em,” said Steve Bannon, then the White House chief strategist early in Donald Trump’s first term as president. “If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.” Seven years later, in becoming only the second president after Grover Cleveland to win a second term after being ousted from the White House, Trump appears to have exploded the concept of “demographic destiny” – the theory Democrats would naturally become the dominant political force in the United States as the country became steadily more multicultural. The exit polls suggest there was a three-point swing to Kamala Harris, the biracial daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, among white vo...

The President-Elect has made no secret of his disdain for this “radical Left” agenda Source - Daily Telegraph  Link The weather in Azerbaijan is set fair for next week as Ed Miliband jets in to talk climate change. On day one of COP29, intermittent sunshine is expected, with only an 8 per cent chance of rain. Nonetheless, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary will need to pack his jumper, for there are chill winds blowing his way. Indeed, following Donald Trump’s sensational election victory, the whole ten day shindig is likely to be enveloped in gloom. In a shattering blow to Net Zero crusaders, the most powerful man on the planet now appears to think climate change is a hoax. The UK is already experiencing what the Germans call “dunkelflaute” – a series of murky days without wind or sunshine. Such conditions are always bad news for Miliband’s renewable energy push, as his beloved turbines and solar panels struggle to generate kilowatts.  These dismal conditions will pass. ...

Tariffs and Ukraine’s surrender would be ruinous for Europe’s former economic powerhouse Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Daily Telegraph Link The splash across Germany’s venerable newspaper Die Zeit was a single word in English, distilled to sum up what has just happened to Europe, Nato, the world trading system, and above all Germany: “F--k”. “Looking away doesn’t help, fear doesn’t help, and in the end all that’s left is feeble self-soothing,” it said, with a nod to Heinz Kohut’s Self Psychology for a Fractured World. Donald Trump’s re-election is no picnic for Labour Britain either: the Trump inflation trade has pushed 10-year gilt yields to almost 4.6pc and used up Rachel Reeves’s “headroom” before she starts. But I doubt that Trump will punish our Foreign Secretary for once calling him a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”. David Lammy began cultivating Trump’s advisers before it was fashionable again, under his doctrine of ‘progressive realism’. He has dined cheerfully with t...

 Jump to content I will do all in my power to bridge the divide between the Starmer Government and the President-Elect. It’s in the national interest Daily Telegraph 06/11/24 Nigel Farage Link They still don’t get it! Perhaps the most enjoyable part of being witness to Donald Trump’s victory – easily the greatest comeback in modern political history – has been watching the reaction of liberal commentators, both in the United Kingdom and in the USA. In their eyes, it is 2016 all over again, as though a dark cloud has descended over the Western world. This attitude also extends to the Democratic Party, whose chief protagonists are, as I write this from a hotel room in West Palm Beach, giving a press conference in New York. They’re talking about gender alignment and immigrant rights. What none of them can or will see is that Trump has put together a new electoral coalition of the most remarkable breadth. This is the first time for 20 years that the Republican Party has won a majority ...

Reflections on the remarkable return of Donald Trump Source -Matt Goodwin - 06/11/24 This is what happens. This is what happens when you ignore what millions of ordinary people have been saying for much of the last decade. This is what happens when instead of addressing their concerns you jam even more mass immigration, broken borders, social disorder, woke policies, gender madness, soft-on-crime policies, high taxes, regulation, and cultural chaos down their throats. This is what happens when instead of treating your fellow citizens with respect you choose to berate them, once again, like you did in 2016, as “Nazis”, “fascists”, “MAGA extremists”, “insurrectionists”, “garbage”, and more. This is what happens when the only people who refuse to acknowledge that most voters do not want to live in a world with open borders, mass migration, soft-on-crime policies, high taxes, restrictions on free speech, forever wars, and the sexualisation of our children happen to be the very people who c...

Joe Biden depressed Americans; Kamala Harris patronised them. So they decided to get Trump back Daily Telegraph 06/11/24 Link Trump has done it again. Graciously accepting victory on stage at Mar-a-Lago – “everybody up here is great” - Trump claimed to head “the greatest political movement of all time”, and JD Vance heralded “the greatest political comeback in the history of America.” It seems America has made Trump great again. The polls were right: Trump v Harris was close with a slight Trump advantage, sweeping the sun-belt and edging the rustier states in the north. A repeat of 2016, possibly more decisive. Even as the winner rambled into his mic – “we all think our children are amazing” – the pundits didn’t want to believe their ears. The mood on my TV right now is funereal, which is most amusing. How could crazy old Trump – on trial for countless crimes – win a second term? Because to millions of Americans, he’s not so crazy. As the results trickled in, a friend sent me a photo o...