Why Trump won 2024 US elections?
Joseph Goebbels: “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.” US 2024 elections concluded with victory of Donald Trump, a felon previously indicted on 91 criminal charges - espionage, conspiring to defraud America, inciting an insurrection, election interference, business fraud etc. Trump, regarded as most unfit and grossly incompetent leader still managed to beat Democratic party candidate. How did this happen? Elections are unpredictable exercises and complex gambles which can go either way. This itself is structural problem of electoral democracy which i have discussed in a previous article . When a candidate like Donald Trump is in the race, playing this gamble in electoral democracy can turn out to be a Russian roulette. Elections are complex and it's very difficult to measure and ascribe weightage to observable factors behind their outcome, and then there are many unknown unknown which we can't even account for. Despite