Please explain " He has a mandate" to me.

He has a mandate from the voters to carry out his agenda.

He was awarded all 3 houses to employ the agenda he campaigned on. It’s the political equivalent of sweep the leg. No mercy.

I hope he exceeds it ten fold.

Are you stupid? No one could not understand what people mean when they say trump has a mandate. But I’ll explain it to you like a child.

A majority of our republic, not a plurality and not even a minor majority but a substantial citizenship coalition, have done their civic duty. The result of it is America has made it known they WANT Trumps entire agenda enacted as much as possible and no amount of crying or obfuscation from progressives will sate them. The mandate is this.

Fix our broken economy. Trumps plan is tariffs. This WILL result in more short term harm no one should be under any illusions that it won’t. But it must be done for long term viability. Short term thinking has ruled us for too long.

Deport every single illegal you can possibly find. Resources should be allocated to known criminals first, then fighting age men, and on down the later. No one is spared. Not women. Not children. They all go.

Trash the entire progressive agenda. This is a going to be a Herculean task that realistically has little chance of fully being accomplished in 4 years but if promising progress is being made someone like Vance or whoever can carry it forward.

Adopt a more isolationist foreign policy. Not a complete one, but a more nationalistic and American people first overall attitude to foreign policy. We will not fight in anymore of their wars.

Thank you for honestly displaying your craven ignorance (or, perhaps, stupidity) so that I can more easily disregard your input and not waste my energy or care utilizing effort to elucidate what is obviously an abyss of mediocrity…

You’ll only hear democrats mention it when their guy wins. All you need to know today

The Blues Brothers were on a mission from God, its similar.

Just bend over…. This will be painful for you and you will not enjoy it…

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He has a mandate from the voters to carry out his agenda.

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This

And if he were a Dem, every media legacy media outlet would be screaming this every newscast.

I am not a fan of Trump, but this is what he just did to the Democrats and beltway bureaucrats.

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Is this mandate some sort of mythical political rhetoric, or does this mandate actually have real world power?

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The political theory behind having a mandate is on its face fairly simple.

A president can be perceived to have a mandate when their victory is large “enough” that the public writ large are behind him.


Think Reagan v Mondale - clearly the American public was vastly more in favor of what Reagan was offering. Hence, Reagan winning 49 of 50 states.


The current election of Trump was about as large of a victory as can be achieved in the US any more. Add to that, Trump winning in several unexpected states and being closer in states usually not close (New Jersey and New York) and the perception of a mandate is clear.