Part I: How American Hindus Contributed to Trump’s Triumph in 2024?

 This is a 3-part series: Part I (this), Part II, Part III (coming soon)

Contributions by Hindu Americans to Trump’s triumph are indisputable. Hindus are feeling exasperated with the failure of the Democratic Party to value the interests of Hindus. According to the Carnegie Endowment and APIA Vote, Indian Americans’ support for Democrats has been declining since 2020.

Trump’s agenda about the economy, jobs, immigration, and taxes certainly resonated with Hindu Americans just as it did with White, Black, and Hispanic Americans. This article explores why and how the American Hindus contributed to Trump’s triumph in 2024 from the author’s perspective (a Hindu American community leader). The author contacted the Hindu community chat groups and received input from fifteen  Hindu American community leaders. They shared their contributions and their stories with the author.

Notably, the trend of American Hindus leaving the Democratic party started in 2020, attributed to its anti-Hindu hate-mongering by its leftist-Islamist-Marxist cabal, exacerbated by the leftist academe. All Leftist institutions (Media and Academia)  strongly supported the anti-Hindu hate conference “Dismantling Global Hindutva” in 2020, followed by the hoax anti-Hindu hate legislation CA SB 403 in 2023, the multiple attacks on Hindu places of worship from New York to California. Imagine the gaslighting of Hindus with attacks on multiple Hindu Mandirs, and ordinary Hindus being spat upon in a Taco Bell in Fremont, Pro-Khalistan trucks with scary LCD screens roaming the neighborhoods intimidating Americans. We Hindus left the Democratic Party and reached out to the mainstream media for help. Alas, to no avail! 

In April this year, the H.Res.1131 – Celebrating Hindu Americans, and condemning attacks on Hindu places of worship, Hinduphobia, and anti-Hindu bigotry, and for other purposes. The 118th Congress (2023-2024) was introduced. In other words, it was intended to “Condemn Hinduphobia and attacks on Hindu places of worship” and has the support of only 23 bipartisan co-sponsors. 

Why did Hindus support Trump in 2024?

Over the past four years, Hindu voices have been maliciously shattered by the Media, AKA Democrat Media Complex, by setting up false anti-Hindu hate narratives. What is clear is that no mainstream legacy media lent their voice to our false narratives, rigged up by anti-Hindu hate organizations. Hindus were stunned that the re-building and re-opening of our Hindu Ram Mandir (temple) in Ayodhya, India, was made into a subject of devious disinformation by the Democrat-Media Complex. 

Hindus have essentially been feeling a new low for their trust in journalism, attributed to the many hateful reports recently published in the mainstream media like the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among others.  

As I read Trump’s recent statement condemning the genocide of Hindus in Bangladesh, tears welled in my eyes and rolled down my face. Finally, we Hindus felt heard! We felt validated!  Donald Trump Vows To ‘Protect Hindu Americans’ In Viral Diwali Message | US Election 2024 “These atrocities would have never happened under my watch. Hindus have been ignored by the Biden-Harris Administration,” stated Trump. Ironically, the Democratic Media complex refused to become a voice to oppose the ongoing persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh. 

Recently, the lives of American Hindus were turned upside down by the Democrat-Media Complex. Many anti-Hindu hate-mongering organizations in cahoots with the Democrat-Media Complex, AKA Democratic Socialist Progressives AKA  leftists-Islamist-Marxist have been gaslighting Hindus with Hinduphobic assaults. 

The introduction of CA SB 403 in 2023, a hoax legislation, was another assault on American Hindus. Despite great optics, it was targeted anti-Hindu hate legislation by the CA Senator Aisha Wahab (D-Fremont) and the Equality Labs (EL), an anti-Hindu hate monger organization that sells bigoted DEI training to Corporations.  And yes! It was supported by the Hinduphobic CADem Progressive Caucus, the Hindus for Human Rights (an anti-Hindu hate monger organization that targets Hindus), the anti-Hindu Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the anti-Hindu Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), and the anti-Hindu SALDEF (Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund) among others. 

Sadly, Sundar Iyer, a Manager at Cisco corporation was assaulted by a dubious lawsuit for alleged caste discrimination by the oxymoronic CA Civil Rights Department because of his Hindu name, despite he wrote in his earlier blog at Stanford University that he was a non-practicing Hindu.  

It led to an increase in anti-Hindu hate crimes. California hate hotline documents 1,020 reports in a year. According to the FBI Report, “Anti-Hindu Hate Crimes Doubled In A Year.” 

This brings us back to the issue of targeting our Hindu religious identity “Hindutva” by anti-Hindu hatemongers. Hindutva or ‘Hinduness’ is to Hindus the same as Christianity is to Christians.  Yet, it was maliciously defamed by the anti-Hindu leftist-Islamist-Marxist Cabal to imply that ‘Hindus are Supremacists/Fascists/Racists.’ Analogous to implying that Christianity means “Christians are Supremacists/Racists, attributed to their history of slave ownership.” Sheer nonsense! As rigged up as the anti-Hindu hate narratives about Hindutva equals Fascists/Supremacists that have been maliciously propagated by the Democratic-Media complex. 

Another bitter disappointment to us Hindus is the fact that some extremist right-wing Christians in the GOP also express their anti-Hindu hate. Our concern is evidence-based: check out  @AudreyTruschke, @PeterFriedrich @SunitaVishwanath. They are overt anti-Hindu hate agitators who have also unleashed bigotry on Hindus.