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Blexit is worse than a fantasy. It’s a delusion which is harming the GOP.

Regular GOP pandering to the black community is, indeed, a waste of time, primarily because the GOPers in the last couple of decades who attempted this were transparently country-club elitists who didn't have the slightest idea how to relate to any non-white Americans, or even to middle and lower-class white Americans. They were frauds and everyone saw that.

The support for Trump, however, seems to be an organically-grown phenomenon. I don't see Trump pandering to black Americans. I only see him telling them straight up, "This is what I'm doing for everybody." Those black Americans who have openly supported him have appeared to have done so of their own initiative, rather than having been coaxed into it. Examples of this are Diamond and Silk, and freaking KANYE WEST, who, God bless him, has gone off on some kind of spiritual rocket ride that I can't even begin to comprehend, but who has gone from songs about money and bitches to a top-selling album of old timey return to Jesus, and wears a MAGA hat wherever he goes.

There simply is no precedent by which to measure what is happening right in front of our eyes, both for good and for bad, and so if, next election, we saw even a 10-20% shift of black voting to Trump (NOTE - not GOP, but Trump, specifically), I would not be surprised, and it would result in a landslide of Reagan proportions.

In other words, do not let past patterns prejudice your current expectations. The times, they are a-changin'.