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[Good point. I would also get off this stupid blather on how much better Trump did among different racial/ethnic groups. Hispanics may be one story; but this fixation on black voters is mystifying. If Trump’s share of the black vote was 12% and Mitt Romney’s was 8% in 2012, then that sounds impressive until you realize that blacks are only 13% of the population. A four point increase in that group is an “impressive” gain that only results in a 0.5% change in your support at the end of the day.]

Kushnerism (i.e. amnesty for drug dealers) to get a bigger chunk of the black vote was always a snipe hunt. It diluted the GOP’s traditional law and order appeal. Then Trump made things worse by reminding voters about Biden’s and Harris’s past law and order credentials. People want drug dealers locked up for decades, not released early. Rabid Trump voters will overlook little stuff like this. But not everyone’s a rabid Trump voter for whom the border wall and bringing jobs back from abroad are the major issues. Law and order is a perennial, and Trump really blurred the distinction between himself and Biden.

While I would certainly welcome increasing our share of the black vote, we should be pragmatic and realistic about it’s benefits.

>Kushnerism (i.e. amnesty for drug dealers) to get a bigger chunk of the black vote was always a snipe hunt.

So Jared Kushner was basically responsible for that? Trump should have had him stick to making Middle East deals and kept him out of domestic policy. Would you say that that was a factor in Biden’s success?