Trump’s Election Is a Moment of National Unity
It’s rare that a democratic election produces the kind of political unity we see in the wake of the 2024 election.
The Republican Party not only was elected into control of the White House, the House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate, it will also control the majority of state governments. In a note published on Tuesday, Bank of America strategist Jared Woodard points out that this is only the sixth time since 1934 that one party holds the majority in state and federal governments.
Add to that the comfortable majority of Republican-appointees to the Supreme Court and we may be in an unprecedented moment of national political unity. Perhaps not surprisingly, the legacy media continues to describe the election as divisive and the Republican campaigns as rooted in darkness and anger—despite the fact that GOP candidates…
