Right now, after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential elections, decisively defeating the Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris, but also taking control of Congress, in an election considered close. But when we looked at the results of the 2024 presidential election, we all came to the conclusion that Donald easily won the presidency, despite the predictions of many analysts on the major networks associated with the Democratic Party.

But, What was the reason for Donald Trump’s victory and Kamala Harris’s defeat? Analyzing the role of social media and its influence on the millions of voters who elected Donald Trump as the next president, it is necessary to understand that no matter what type of campaign you do, many times focusing on the reason for the defeat ignoring the reason for the victory does not help correct the errors and in the future create new electoral strategies that produce a victory.

There were many political analysts, who work in the major national networks, who are looking for the reasons for Donald Trump’s victory and the utter defeat of the candidates of the party that lost in the wrong place. Several days before the elections, they are looking for a culprit or several culprits, ignoring the good work done by Donald Trump’s campaign, where social networks were extremely important, polarizing and motivating the most radical groups of the right in America, who were largely responsible for Donald Trump’s victory.

How did Donald Trump’s hateful, anti-liberal, immigrant and nationalist message connect more with a large majority of the American people who voted overwhelmingly for his Candidacy? I believe that the national democratic leadership in Washington will have four years to find that answer.

How did Donald Trump use social media to win the presidency?

Were social media responsible for Donald Trump’s victory? There is no doubt that social media was a vehicle for manipulation, of the many voters who accepted Donald Trump’s lies as truths and on election day voted for Donald Trump, as is the case with Latinos, the young population, black men, but especially white men, many of them with extremist pro-Trump ideas, when we talk about illegal immigration, who assured during his campaign of expulsion of around 10 million illegal immigrants, if he reaches the presidency and despite that many Latinos elected Donald Trump as president.

Did the democratic candidates lose due to problems of message, a political platform that was too liberal or too conservative, a candidates who did not connect with the needs and problems of the America , a problem of lack of knowledge of what the American people want at this moment? An analysis on this topic will give you the correct answer if the democratic leadership takes the analysis and its conclusions seriously.

To understand the radicalization of far-right extremist groups in the United States, and how it is a key element in Donald Trump’s victory, we must understand the negative effect that misinformation, baseless lies, and conspiracy theories have on a portion of the white population that is susceptible to this type of brainwashing by the programming of some media outlets. If we analyze the content on national news channels, but also those opinion programs, especially in conservative media, that amplify these lies, and why not also talk about the enormous influence of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter as a propaganda mechanism associated with the most radical right-wing groups of the Republican Party.

Considering the role social media played in propelling Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States and their complicity with these digital media when they allowed without moderation or verification of the veracity of news, the spread of false information, the promotion of conspiracy theories and all in order not to disturb far-right activists, especially Donald Trump, no one can deny that social media executives have some responsibility in the political crisis that could happen if Donald Trump lost the election .

Was the campaign of intimidation of the media, and the part of the voting population sensitive to this intimidation tactic by Donald Trump, the reason for his victory?

Nobody really knows. But if a large part of the population elected Donald Trump out of fear of an institutional crisis, they were unwittingly victims of a type of manipulation used by all demagogic politicians. Something we must understand, social media is not solely responsible for the radicalization of extremist groups in the United States, those responsible are those politicians and activists who created the division in the first place through misinformation. One thing is a means of communication and another is how these means of communication are used for subversive purposes. “Social media was only used as a vehicle to promote, radicalize and deepen the division of the American people by increasing the presence of hate groups by providing a platform to promote these hate speeches.”

Are Twitter and Facebook responsible for the radicalization of far-right groups that are susceptible to disinformation?

This is where for one reason or another these platforms were allowed to be used as a tool to promote propaganda by conservative political sectors and far-right activists who took advantage of the negligence of this social network that allowed disinformation, lies and conspiracy theories to be promoted to users without taking serious measures to moderate or stop it.

Whether out of political conviction or economic gain, the complicity of executives at high-tech corporations such as Facebook, Snapchat, Spotify, Twitch, Shopify, Stripe, Reddit, TikTok and YouTube in the lack of control of the enormous amount of disinformation and propaganda that they allowed on their platforms for fear of limiting the freedom of expression of radicalized far-right pro-Trump supporters. In the face of the insurgency and the attack on the Capitol, the inappropriate use of social media is one of the reasons for the political problems that the United States is facing at this time due to the danger posed by radicalized far-right groups.

Would the insurgency or attack on the Capitol have been possible without the use of social media as a communication and planning tool? Would Donald Trump’s victory have been possible without the influence of social media on those groups that were against the liberal policies of the Democratic Party? Possibly not. But we must not stop blaming President Donald Trump who incited the mobs that attacked Congress and the far-right groups that participated in this anti-democratic act.

No one doubts that the main people responsible for the misinformation on social media are conservative Republican political leaders who are sympathetic to far-right activists, especially the president of the republic who used social media as a mechanism to promote pro-Nazi, pro-white supremacy ideology, anti-immigrant and anti-democratic behavior that is creating unrest, uncertainty and fear in the American people due to the subversive activities of these radicalized right-wing groups.

Why don’t we also talk about Trump’s calls for violence against African-American, Hispanic, and Muslim minority groups using social media? It is clear that the executives who own this high-tech social network did not provide an immediate solution to this type of problem that promotes fake news, disinformation, and news manipulation to a white American people susceptible to consuming this type of false narrative, especially when it comes to far-right extremist groups.

Is there something fundamentally broken in social media that has allowed these violent thoughts to come about that allows the presidential candidate convicted in courts to become a President?

In my view, removing the platforms that have so far supported Trump’s lies and disinformation will not diminish the negative effects of these deeper pathological problems in conservative sectors that promote hate movements in the United States. The ideology of Trumpism, which is part of the mindset of far-right Trump supporters in the United States right now.

But will it be enough to suppress access to these social media to stop the insurgent activities of these far-right extremist groups that enthusiastically facilitated Donald Trump’s victory? I believe that it is not possible, as long as we do not find answers to the most fundamental problems affecting the American nation at this time, which is behind these movements motivated by hatred, resentment and more so when for four years we will have Donald Trump defending the militants of these groups that have these anti-democratic ideas.

In addition to the role of social media, we must also take into account the manipulation of information by conservative media that amplified Donald Trump’s lies, but above all the promotion of anti-democratic, racist and far-right anti-immigrant ideas on multiple online radio and television platforms that created the conditions for the radicalization of some conservative far-right groups with extremist attitudes.

Are social media platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, Spotify, Twitch, Stripe, Reddit, TikTok, and YouTube responsible for the radicalization of a portion of the white population who overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump? In my view, they bear some responsibility, but the greatest responsibility lies in the failure of federal and state institutions to recognize the danger posed by these radicalized individuals of the far-right extremists, considered by experts to be domestic terrorists, but the worst of all was the failure of Democratic leaders to understand the enormous influence that these groups have on the electorate, who overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump as the
next president.

What can we expect from a Donald Trump presidency in the next four years after winning the presidency of the United States?

Some analysts will say that we will see a vengeful president, with dictatorial attitudes and in more extreme cases, he will install fascist states, where what Trump says is what is done, which will suppress all
freedoms, especially the role of the press, but also the use of the judicial system which will be at his service to silence dissenting voices of his style of government, and let’s not talk about control and manipulation of information, but the worst of all is continuing to sow division in the American people between extreme right-wing groups and groups with liberal ideas.

But in politics one never knows and even more so when we talk about a man who is not very predictable like the next president of the United States, Donald Trump, who despite winning overwhelmingly will govern for a power group that has the wealth at the moment and Donald Trump who does not care what the poor and the workers think or
want.

What will Donald Trump’s presidency be like?

Four years of political scandal, criticizing his style of government, listening to the same old lies and raising the voice or complaint of the national press when Donald Trump makes some kind of political decision that affects the social, political and economic interests of everyone, including those who voted for him. This is the type of government we will see from him, so don’t be surprised by what he says, does or doesn’t do. It is often said that people have the president they deserve and in the case of Donald Trump, there will be no difference.