Back to #2234 - Marc Andreessen, with Marc Andreessen.
What Did a Senior Democrat Predict About Trump?
Marc Andreessen heard a senior Democrat on the way out of politics say in the summer that Trump was going to win with 100% certainty. He described the Democrat as coming from a purple state, not New York or California, and likened it to maybe Arizona, a broader cross section of people.
The test was to fly into any purple place, go to a second or third tier side city, land at the airport, take an Uber, and drive around for 30 minutes. Ask the driver how it is going and who they are voting for. A hundred percent of the time the answer was going to be Trump, because people were completely fed up.
Kamala enthusiasm was highly focused in New York and California. New York and California do not matter from an electoral standpoint and were not going to decide anything, but the enthusiasm is huge for media. People in media bubbles were not breaking out and were getting deeper into the collective psychosis they indulge in. Outside heavily blue states there was very little popular support for the excitement. People fundamentally did not like the direction the country was going in, and they were fed up with it.