Posted on 10/31/2020 5:24:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Liberals are tying themselves in knots trying to explain President Trumps growing popularity among Black and Hispanic voters.
The left is heavily invested in the narrative it has constructed of Donald Trump as an unrepentant white nationalist whose supposedly racist rhetoric is driving minorities away from the Republican Party in droves. The presidents critics have repeated this lie so many times that theyve actually started to believe it which is making for some highly amusing logical contortions as they try to navigate their own cognitive dissonance.
At first, all they had to do was dismiss the accuracy of polls showing that President Trump has been steadily gaining support in both the Black and Latino communities. But the phenomenon didnt disappear, and with no time left to reverse the trends, liberals have begun to acknowledge that In the Trump era, the U.S. electorate has become less divided by race.
This directly contradicts one of the central articles of faith within todays Democratic Party. Based on the presupposition that Donald Trump is the most openly racist politician in living memory, common sense dictates that conservative-leaning non-white voters should be fleeing the GOP in droves, disgusted by the presidents alleged appeals to white supremacy and xenophobia. Meanwhile, the white voters whom Trump is supposed to be wooing with his divisive rhetoric are actually shifting toward the Democrats.
As Nate Cohn observes in The New York Times, The decrease in racial polarization defies the expectations of many analysts, who believed a campaign focused on appeals to issues like Black Lives Matter or law and order would do the opposite.
So what gives? the Democrats have begun asking themselves. Their unwillingness to let go of the racist Trump fantasy is leading them to some rather ridiculous conclusions.
The consensus seems to be that President Trumps efforts to divide the country along racial lines have simply been a spectacular failure the dolt!
His appeals to white nationalism havent worked with most white voters, The New York Times declares in its October 30 morning briefing newsletter. But Trumps white nationalism hasnt driven away many voters of color who didnt already oppose him. Instead, his confrontational style and tough talk on crime and national security seem to have appealed to some Latino and Black voters.
This has the advantage of reassuring liberals of their own superiority while explaining away the presidents popularity among non-white voters as a product of the authoritarian inclinations of some Blacks and Hispanics a line of reasoning that is uncomfortably close to the racist Uncle Tom attacks that self-styled progressives have long used against conservatives of color.
The problem with this explanation apart from its being profoundly incorrect is that it studiously overlooks the real reason for Donald Trumps growing appeal to minorities.
Over the course of his first term, President Trump has consistently embraced and implemented policies designed to uplift and empower Americans who had previously been forgotten by the political establishment a category that specifically includes Blacks and Hispanics.
In defiance of influential members of his own party, for instance, the president secured a bipartisan majority in Congress to pass the FIRST STEP Act, effecting the most momentous reform to Americas criminal justice system in a generation. The legislation reversed some of the most discriminatory policies that had been implemented in the 1980s and 90s, recommitted the federal prison system to rehabilitation, and released thousands of deserving inmates the overwhelming majority of them Black who had been serving excessive sentences for non-violent crimes.
The Trump administration also engineered a broad-based economic boom that greatly improved the prospects of minorities, achieving all-time lows in the unemployment rates for Black and Hispanic Americans. The Opportunity Zones initiative created by the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, moreover, is promoting long-term prosperity in economically distressed communities all over the country, driving massive amounts of private investment to struggling neighborhoods that are disproportionately home to Americans of color.
More recently, the president has outlined his plans to build on that success during his second term, releasing the Platinum Plan for Black Americans and the American Dream Plan for Hispanic Americans.
The lefts portrayal of President Trump is a caricature, but liberals treat it like a portrait. Their inability to comprehend why Blacks and Hispanics are increasingly embracing Donald Trumps vision and agenda for American Greatness is the direct and inevitable result of the lefts devotion to its own inaccurate narrative.
They created a false image of Trump as soon as he took office, and then every democrat and every member of the media faithfully adhered to that new model, and talked about Trump as if he were racist. Charlottesville marked the beginning of the media fiction against him.
Excellent article. It’s a real shame Mr. Blackwell didn’t win his bid for OH governor. At his age we probably won’t see another run for office from him. But then again, Pres. Trump ain’t no spring chicken.
This garbage didn’t start in Charlottesville. It started when Trump declared himself a Republican. This is hardly a new line of attack against DJT. It’s been used against every high profile GOP candidate since I’ve been following politics.
Racism only lives in the minds of the Demonrats. They use racism and covid to control all colors.
The left is truly racist in that they assign political views based on race and God help any minority who deviates from their loathsome decrees!
They don’t get it. Dimms must believe that black and Hispanic support is a birthright. So they just serve up platitudes of support or severe condemnation if any of their flock strays off the plantation.
President Trump has been the first Republican POTUS since Reagan who effectively courted blacks and Hispanics. This could reform elections for a generation.
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