Posted on 08/31/2020 6:17:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the things that conservatives noted approvingly was the way that the Republican National Convention reached out to blacks. For too long, Republicans had a defeatist attitude about black voters. Even though Republican policies manifestly benefitted blacks, Republicans believed that the black bias in favor of Democrat candidates was insurmountable. Trump never believed that, and its his faith in black voters that may be paying off. A post-convention poll shows that 24% of registered black voters support him.
We all know how black voters switched their allegiance from the Republican party an allegiance created during Reconstruction to the Democrat party, beginning during the Depression. By the 1960s, even though the Democrat party was the party of slavery and Jim Crow, and even though more Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Republicans, the fact that a Democrat president presided over its passage seemed to cement blacks permanently to the Democrat party. Thats why, for more than 50 years, blacks give around 90% of their votes to Democrat presidential candidates.
Democrat policies havent been good for blacks. Instead, Democrats have pushed welfare-based policies like a drug dealer pushes heroin. The user knows the stuff is bad for him but just cant say no. Regardless of the facts on the ground, though, the Democrats still consistently managed to convince American blacks that Republicans, the party of abolition and Reconstruction, were invariably the second coming of the KKK.
Trump, however, was not from the Republican old guard and saw no reason not to make a play for black voters. In 2016, his greatest efforts were not yet directed at blacks but, as he rightly asked blacks while outside of Lansing, Michigan, back in August 2016, What do you have to lose by trying something new,
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All Americans should vote for Trump.
His opponents are deranged, dangerous totalitarians.
yep was well aware of that, which is why I noted that ryan was NOT his successor.
I was a Kemp man in 88 for sure.
Democrats have pushed welfare-based policies like a drug dealer pushes heroin.
Trump has wised them up to the plantation owners game,they have more now then they ever had a chance to be on their own.
“One of the things that conservatives noted approvingly was the way that the Republican National Convention reached out to blacks.”
As I have commented previously, Not JUST the convention or the “reaching out”. Trump has DEEDS! Trump has REAL accomplishments for Black Americans he can point to.
In Trump’s case its not “talk” but ACTION! DEEDS not words.
While showcasing MANY Blacks for Trump (including Democrat Blacks for Trump) at the convention, it was the culmination of a policy, an effort, to actually HELP Black Americans.
THAT is why the shift is REAL. Not just some pandering for the convention. Not just for SHOW!
While its an uphill battle, Trump only needs to increase his Black vote by 10% to DESTROY the Democrat party.
If Trump has “coattails” like I think he WILL, it is OVER for the Demonrat Party.
Thank God! Praise God! I pray for the overwhelming defeat of the evil Demonrat Party, in Jesus name, Amen.
Kemp's performance in the 1996 was not impressive, but you might not remember the 1988 election cycle or the Kemp-Roth Tax Reduction Act (1981) that cut income tax rates and established the basis for today's 401(k) plans and Roth IRAs. Reagan ran on the promotion of this legislation, which in part led to his electoral victory in 1980. It was passsed and signed into law in Reagan's first year.
I have always wondered how the world would have been different had Reagan switched out Bush for Kemp in 1984 like Lincoln switched VPs in 1864.
He was the one who pioneered the concept of Opportunity Zones as a Congressman long before he was selected as HUD diretor, and these are championed by Tim Scott and President Trump today.
A single poor performance in a single debate does not define the entirety of the success of one's political career.
FReegards!
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