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?
[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?]
Bannon was blasting away at both daughter and son-in-law for stuff like this. He’s a loose cannon, but that may have been exacerbated by the extent to which he was shut out of policy-making during his White House tenure. The basic problem is that in his first two years, when he had Congressional majorities, Trump jettisoned a huge chunk of the populist program he sold to get elected. In frustration, Bannon started leaking like a sieve, slamming Javanka at every opportunity. Trump fired him for leaking against them. When Trump had some ability to get the populist program enacted legislatively (rather than through executive orders, which are more problematic politically and more subject to judicial interference), he did little. Only when the House majority had been lost, through the 2018 blue state GOP massacre from the tax cuts, did he get back to populism. By then, it was perhaps too little, too late. And then he tacked on the Javanka amnesty.