I don’t think it defeatist to keep 20.000 home. It’s called “choose your battles.”
The leaders in that group to NOT want to be educated on the merits of conservatism if such a program means they will have to give up their free lunches (Schools), free rent (HUD), free food (Food stamps), free medical care (Medicaid and Obamacare), free money for having additional kids out of wedlock,(AFDC), Not paying their mortgage (the latest Obama Executive Order), preference in government jobs and contracts, (Affirmative Action)
The list goes on and on.
How bad is it? J.C Watts NEVER won the Black vote in his district, OK-4.
Rather than thinking of it as defeatism. please see it as a away to PREVENT 20,000 votes for the Dem candidate for Gov or Senator.