Donald Trump's message to America is simple: Make America Great Again. Kamala Harris closed with a different message: "We Are Not Going Back." Her campaign believed it was a clever way to say the country wasn't going back to Donald Trump. Voters had another view; they agreed with her. The country told Harris, "We aren't going back to you," and slammed the door in her face.

Harris represented the incumbent administration and bore all the mistakes both Biden and Harris made over the past four years. In a multitude of polls, Joe Biden's approval ratings were deeply underwater, barely holding above 40%, with individual polls routinely showing him in the mid-to-high 30% range. Those same people told pollsters that they believed the country was on the wrong track.

If you looked across the world, incumbent governments were getting swept out everywhere. The signs were there, and Americans were displeased with the Biden administration, from its handling of the economy to everything else. Democrats chucked Biden to the side and handed voters Harris, and the message was: "We are not going back."

Voters agreed. We aren't going back. We're moving forward with Donald Trump and none of the mistakes of the Biden administration.

The response from the Harris campaign was to argue, nonstop, "Donald Trump is bad." If you've heard one Democratic Party speech on this front, you've heard them all. There wasn't one single new ad, speech, or point raised by anyone involved. It was Hillary Clinton 2.0 and an electorate looking for anything beyond the obvious.

When voters asked for answers for why Harris did nothing when inflation was terrible, the economy worsened, interest rates soared, and a myriad of other issues, she ran. Harris hid from the press and didn't even do friendly interviews. By the time voters started filling out ballots and the Harris campaign realized they needed to do something, it was too late.

In the final week, the Harris campaign made a big deal of a joke by a shock comic at the Madison Square Garden rally for Trump. The Harris campaign believed that they could pull away Puerto Rican voters. In Florida, Donald Trump won Osceola County, which has a substantial majority of Puerto Rican voters. There was a similar story with Hispanic voters across the country.

One of the great ironies is that the Harris Campaign ran an X/Twitter account to spread its messaging rapidly. It was called "Kamala's Wins," which was meant to keep score of Kamala Harris's wins. But this campaign left that concept unanswered. What were Kamala Harris's wins?

It's easy to look at Donald Trump and see the answer to such a situation. He didn't have sky-high inflation, ridiculous interest rates, and a world on fire from the worst foreign policy in a generation. Donald Trump left office the first time while signing the Abraham Accords, the literal definition of peace in the Middle East. He returns four years later because Biden and Harris empowered the enemies of that peace.

Trump left office as the pandemic waned, and he had delivered vaccines via Operation Warp Drive. Biden and Harris took those wins and drove mandates, radicalizing the country against both them and the solution to the pandemic. Then, they ignored inflation while pouring gasoline on the economy's demand curve.

Trump's loss in 2020 was understandable to an extent. He was getting graded on COVID-19, the pandemic, and more. In hindsight, that response looks better than any win the Harris campaign could find. They were busy announcing celebrity appearances while Americans demanded accountability, answers, and a change of course.

The only thing Harris could offer was not to be Donald Trump. Voters wanted more - they wanted to be beyond her and Biden, and she couldn't provide an alternative. She didn't have one. Donald Trump was able to hammer that point home, agree with the widespread discontent, and convince voters to give him a chance. It's still early in the county, but he may well win the popular vote this time, too.

It's the final death blow to the progressive movement claiming that Trump and everything he's run for is illegitimate. The country demanded more of the Democratic Party but had no answer. As a result, Donald Trump ran to victory in a landslide fashion.

The signs were there. Democrats and Harris cannot say they weren't warned. These polls existed. It wasn't just Joe Biden and his age, though that didn't help. It was more: voters wanted a change and Harris promised more Biden.

And now we have President Trump, 47. We are not going back to Harris, Biden, or the Democratic leadership, who changed the ticket at the last second.