“You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed — what the hell do you have to lose,” Donald Trump asks African Americans from all white audience from and all white West Bend.*** Well for starters making it harder for them to vote, cutting every social safety net project imaginable, taking away what little heath care they have, and an administration in bed with Breitbart, Alt.Right and the old Confederacy all of which is as much Republican as Trumpism.
What’s the difference between the African American votes in 2012 with a Republican non buffoon and 2016 with a Republican buffoon? 93% then to 96% now, a whopping three points. Ask a Republican why that is?
Trump’s outreach to African Americans was not that at all but rather an outreach to white suburban women in the hopes that they will seem not as the racist he is, but as the racist he isn’t. Good luck.
I been hearing blacks want the same things as whites, but there is at least one profound difference.
States rights today! States rights tomarra! States rights forevea!
African Americans default to the federal government rather than the states, FOR GOOD REASON, with the GOP’s central issue that the federal government is the enemy, followed by their second issue, tax relief for the wealthy which will make everything better for everyone but African Americans.
***The media uses the term “mostly white” which could mean like 51% white when both the rally and the town are about 99% white. Much like that Autumn leaf that blows off the cliff into the ocean making the sea mostly wet.