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?