Trump’s Landslide Was a Mandate for Peace, and His Is Now the Peace Party, by Jason Scott Jones

By Jason Scott Jones, The Stream, November 7, 2024

Jason Jones is a senior contributor to The Stream. He is a film producer, activist, and human rights worker. He is also the author of three books, the latest of which is The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset.

The War Party united behind Kamala Harris, and America spat it out of our mouths.

In the last stretch of the 2024 presidential election season, Donald Trump made it clearer than ever that he was pitting the fate of his entire movement against the military-industrial complex and the violence of war. There has rightly been plenty of talk about the political “realignments” Trumpism has brought about. These historic shifts have resulted in a new populist right that champions the worker, the migrant, and the poor on the one hand and an authoritarian political left that threatens censorship, fines, and imprisonment on behalf of a decadent elite on the other.

But the most significant realignment has been a realignment toward peace — a shift that invites the participation of all, from the great innovator and tech mogul Elon Musk and his peers in Silicon Valley to the most recent Muslim migrant worker plying a humble trade in the American Midwest. …

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