Robert Reich: There Was No Mandate For Trump, There Was No Red Shift — There Was Only A Blue Abandonment – OpEd

Trump is saying the election gave him a “very big mandate.”

Rubbish. It wasn’t a mandate at all. It wasn’t even a “red shift” to Trump and the Republicans. 

It was a blue abandonment. 

We now know that nine million fewer votes were cast nationwide in 2024 than in 2020.

Trump got about a million more...