I think you totally missed the point of this election. It had nothing to do with Trump or Harris. Both were terrible candidates for different reasons. In some respects, if someone other than Trump had proposed his policies with equal effectiveness, polls suggest that the Republicans might have won the popular vote by a great deal more. The election was close because so many people voted against Trump... even at their own expense. Meanwhile, you seem mesmerized by Trump the individual and not the huge divide in America.
This election was all about which side of the economy you are living in. Are you a worker who sells your time to earn a livelihood? Globalism and illegal immigration are taking food off your family's table. Study after study shows that as the "supply" of labor goes up, the value of it goes down. If you work in services, an illegal immigrant will work for less. If you build products, a worker in China will do the same thing for less than 20% of what of what you earn.
If you see your family's future being destroyed by globalism, you don't care who Trump is, you care about what policies each party is going to put into effect to stop illegal immigration and foreign competition. Plain and simply. You don't need 24 reasons.
If you earn your living selling "knowledge" like most college graduates or renting "capital" like most wealthy people, you want globalism since competition does not directly impact you and things cost less. You pretend you are morally superior, when in fact, you are promoting as they say on Wall Street, your own "book".
Want to change how people feel about immigration overnight? Seal the border tight as a drum. Put tariffs on imports high enough to allow American workers to earn a good living.
Then increase legal immigration to 5 million people per year but require them to have college degrees. Overnight, the "elitists" will be demanding those quotas get reduced as their employers point out they can hire accountants, lawyers, nurses, teachers, etc. for 30-40% less than they are paying US born workers.
When the virtue signaling college educated elitists come home to tell their families they just lost their jobs to better educated immigrant and when they apply for a new job, they find it is paying 40% less, just watch them scream about immigration. Meanwhile, the wealthy will be happy because now they not only enjoy the benefits of cheap labor in their factories, but cheap labor on their corporate staffs.
Presently, we cap work visas for highly skilled applicants at a relatively low number. Because of pressure mainly from the workers in the tech, financial, and education fields. Apparently, immigration is fine if the person wants to cut your lawn for almost nothing, but not if the person wants your job.
Until the people like you wake up and realize that until you walk in the shoes of someone who is seeing their job and income pressured by globalism, you will never understand why people voted for Trump.
As an aside, the next wave is coming, and it's called AI. Unlike immigration and imports which threatens wage workers, AI will take direct aim at knowledge workers. And unlike immigration and imports, it will be a lot harder to control. Want to see some really angry people, watch a PhD in history rage about how his job is being done by a machine.
